Source: SFGate
“Kaiser Permanente, the Oakland-based health care conglomerate, is warning millions of customers that one of its divisions may have exposed their names, symptom searches and other data to major tech companies. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. disclosed the data breach to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on April 12. TechCrunch first reported the news. Kaiser told SFGATE in a statement on Thursday, ‘certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile applications, may have transmitted personal information to third-party vendors Google, Microsoft Bing, and X (Twitter).’ Kaiser plans to notify 13.4 million people about the breach, and said the notifications are ‘out of an abundance of caution’. That huge number includes ‘current and former members and patients who accessed our websites and mobile applications,’ the company said. Kaiser did not immediately respond to SFGATE’s question about the time frame of the breach.” (04/27/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/kaiser-data-breach-millions-companies-19423543.php