Iowa Medicaid informs over 20,000 members of data breach

The personal and medical information of 20,800 Iowa Medicaid members was exposed
in a data breach at a third-party vendor managing the state’s health insurance
program.

The breach occurred at a Florida-based company called Independent Living Systems
(ILS). According to a March 14, 2023 notice
[https://ilshealth.com/supplemental-data-notice/], the company learned of
unauthorized access to its systems on July 5, 2022.

“Through our response efforts, we learned that an unauthorized actor obtained