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Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach

Using social engineering, hackers compromised employee accounts with access to personal and health information.

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Healthcare technology company Clover Health Investments has disclosed a data breach impacting customers’ personal and health information.

Discovered on July 4, the incident was the result of a social engineering attack that compromised three non-managerial health plan employee accounts.

Clover Health Investments says it activated its response plan immediately after discovering the attack, and engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to contain and investigate the intrusion.

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The compromised accounts “were assigned to employees who had member visit-scheduling and broker-facing sales functions,” the company says in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

“The employee accounts had access to certain personally identifiable information and protected health information, but had no access to corporate financial or claims systems,” it said.

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Clover Health Investments believes that it contained the incident and evicted the attackers from its systems, but has yet to determine the precise nature, scope, and extent of the data breach.

The company has not shared details on the threat actor behind the attack, and no known ransomware or extortion group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

SecurityWeek has emailed Clover Health Investments for additional information on the data breach and will update this article if the company responds.

Founded in 2014, Clover Health Investments provides Medicare Advantage insurance plans and is a direct US government contractor.

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Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.

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