A flaw on a CMS website that provides Medicare claims data to app developers and patients may have leaked the data of some of the 74,000 people using it, the agency said Monday evening.
The agency detected a problem in the code of its Blue Button 2.0 application programming interface on Dec. 4 and immediately shut down the site. It has been investigating the cause and impact of the problem since then, an agency spokesperson said. Read the full post here.
Source: Medicare Website may have Leaked Thousands of Patients’ Data – By Dan Diamond, December 17, 2019. POLITICO Pulse.
