Bankers Life notified more than 566,000 after hack of employees’ email resulted in breach of PHI

November 7th, 2018, By Dissent
 
The following is a Bankers Life announcement of a security incident that appears on HHS’s public breach tool under the name “CNO Financial Group, Inc.” According to the report to HHS, the breach affected 566,217 members protected health information. 
 
On October 25, Bankers Life1 notified certain customers about a data security issue. We take the privacy and security of your personal information seriously and for this reason want you to understand what we are doing to address this issue.
 
If you have a Medicare Supplement policy issued by Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, you may have also been directed to this site.
 
We recently discovered that unauthorized third parties accessed credentials belonging to a limited number of our employees between May 30 and September 13, 2018. During this period, unauthorized third parties used improperly obtained employee information to gain access to certain company websites, potentially resulting in unauthorized access to personal information of policyholders and applicants.
 
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