Medicare Ransomware Attack Details Sought by GOP Committee Heads

Republican congressional leaders want the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to turn over more information on a ransomware attack that exposed the identifiable information of 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

The US House’s Committee on Oversight and Reform and Committee on Energy and Commerce are investigating a data breach identified by the agency in October 2022 but not reported to Congress until December 2022.

CMS has said Medicare information was exposed in a hack of a third party government subcontractor, which “acted in violation of its obligations.”

“In other words, bad actors had access to Medicare beneficiaries’ information for two …