UPDATED Info on the Recent Data Breach

I’m Caitlin from Delta Dental of California and affiliates, it’s nice to e-meet you. I’m following up on the article* you published on Dec. 23, 2023, and am hoping you can issue some corrections.

1. Please amend all references of “Delta Dental” to “Delta Dental of California and affiliates” or “Delta Dental of California” in the title and body of the article. The broad “Delta Dental” refers to the Delta Dental Plans Association (DDPA). They are two different companies. Delta Dental of California and affiliates provides quality oral health care to 45 million people across 15 states, the District of Columbia and other U.S. territories. The Delta Dental Plans Association (“Delta Dental”) is a network of dental insurance companies composed of 39 independent Delta Dental member companies that operate in all 50 states and serves more than 80 million Americans.
2. Will you please rephrase the last sentence in the first paragraph to accurately convey that Delta Dental of California and affiliates was one of thousands of organizations impacted by a global data security incident resulting from a previously unknown vulnerability in the widely used MOVEit file transfer software, made by Progress Software? Noting that Delta Dental of California and affiliates’ investigation found that approximately 7 million individuals were impacted. However, the overall impact of the MOVEit data breach is greater than that. TechCrunch reported a couple of weeks ago that the totality of the MOVEit breach has impacted almost 84 million individuals.
3. In the third paragraph, the last sentence could be updated to, “They are in the process of mailing notification letters to impacted individuals.”
4. In the fourth paragraph, please replace “pin number” with “membership number”.

 

UC Office of the President has updated the article on their website to reflect these changes: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2023/12/letter-to-the-uc-community-regarding-the-delta-dentalmoveit-data-breach.html.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,

Caitlin

Caitlin Dong | Corporate Communications | cdong@delta.org

Delta Dental of California | 560 Mission Street, Suite 1300 | San Francisco, CA 94105

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/12/hint-freeze-your-credit-or-extraction.html.