U.S. CMS says 75,000 individuals' files accessed in data breach

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Friday it was responding to a data breach that exposed the files of about 75,000 individuals.

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The agency said it detected anomalous activity in the Federally Facilitated Exchange’s (FFE) Direct Enrollment pathway for agents and brokers.

The number of files accessed in the breach represented a small fraction of consumer records present on the FFE, the CMS said.

Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru; Editing by Sai Sachin Ravikumar

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