Medicare Data Breach Update 2024. Several major healthcare cyberattacks have been reported in the first half of 2024, including a ransomware attack on ascension that took its electronic medical record system out. The department of health and human services (hhs) and the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) have responded to a may 2023 data breach in.

Hms handles cms data as part of processing medicare eligibility and entitlement records, in addition to premium payments. Change healthcare is committed to notifying potentially impacted individuals as.