Clients of the Alberta Dental Service Corporation, which administers various public dental benefit plans, are asked to be vigilant in wake of a recent data breach.
The cyberattack by an outside third party led to unauthorized access to a portion of the administrator’s IT infrastructure; certain types of personal information relating to registrants enrolled in provincial government health benefit programs and health providers was obtained, the ADSC said in a news release.
In total, approximately 1.47 million individuals were compromised. Of those, roughly 7,300 records contained personal banking information.
The impacted information includes names, addresses, and potentially personal banking information. Corporate information of certain health providers also appears to be impacted.
Lyle Best, the chairman of ADSC and Quikcard Solutions Inc., said they became aware of the incident on July 10.
“The period of compromise was May 7 – July 9 … and the unauthorized third party accessed and copied certain data from our network before deploying the malware,” ADSC said in a notice on its website, those who had their banking information exposed were part of the seniors program and being paid electronically, and all those affected are being contacted”
ADSC is a not-for-profit corporation created to administer public dental benefits plans for various Government of Alberta programs. Using the Quikcard platform and management team, ADSC has administered dental benefits for Alberta’s Low Income Health Benefits Programs for more than 30 years and the Dental Assistance for Seniors Program (DASP) for the past eight years.
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