A hacker got into a Connecticut Medicaid payment account, exposing billing and insurance details for about 41,000 people. Social Security numbers were not included.
Connecticut says someone broke into a Medicaid provider payment account and saw billing records for about 41,000 people. The state Department of Social Services (DSS) reported it. The records cover HUSKY, the state's Medicaid program. Social Security numbers were not part of it, but the details that were exposed can still help scammers.
An unauthorized user got into a Medicaid provider reimbursement account. That is the kind of account used to handle payments to health care providers. Gainwell Technologies, which administers the account for the state, told DSS about the breach on June 25, 2026.
The investigation found the access was most likely driven by money, not by an interest in patient data. Even so, investigators could not rule out that data was stolen. The provider portal has since been secured.
DSS says electronic medical records, financial information and Social Security numbers were not involved. That lowers the risk of someone opening new accounts in your name. It does not remove the risk of fake claims or convincing scam messages that mention your care.
This is the second HUSKY incident announced in 2026. In March, about 22,500 people were affected when someone used the stolen login of a Hartford Healthcare employee to get into the system.
Other health breaches were announced at the same time. Public Partnerships LLC, which runs New York's home care program CDPAP, said a former facilitator tried to sell data on 12,018 people. The sale appears not to have gone ahead. Hattiesburg Eye Clinic in Mississippi reported 6,137 people affected, and the Eye Care Center of Snohomish in Washington reported 3,059.
The alert box above lists the steps. In short, read your notification letter, take the free credit monitoring offer, and check your insurance statements. Treat any call, text or email about your health care with suspicion, even if it seems to know details about you.
Affected people have been offered free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. The material does not say whether any of the stolen data has been misused. If you or a relative use Medicaid, keep watching statements and mail for charges or services you never received.
If you or a relative use Connecticut Medicaid, check your statements for services you did not receive and treat messages about your care with caution.
Reports say the Trump administration is weighing underwater datacenters off Maine and Alaska, and Lake Erie groups want a plan before anyone proposes one nearby.
Read more: Underwater datacenters may be next, and Lake Erie groups are worriedThe Attala County Sheriff's Office in Mississippi says scam calls are reaching residents, and a call that sounds official may not be.
Read more: Mississippi sheriff warns residents about scam phone callsScammers are posing as Texas sheriff's officers and claiming you missed jury duty. Caller ID can show a real police number even when the call is fake.
Read more: Fake jury duty calls spoof a real Texas sheriff's phone number
