New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services Data Breach

December 4th, the New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services mistakenly attached personal information on over 9,000 Medicare Part D recipients in an email to several health care organizations. This information included Social Security numbers of those signed up for Medicare benefits.

At this time, there is no sign of misuse, but the department is advising those who may have been affected to freeze their accounts and check their credit reports for fraud. A fraud alert or credit monitoring service are other options for consideration.

Victims of this data breach were notified mid-December of this discovery.