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RevSpring says an intruder used its bill pay support tool to pull patient Social Security numbers

Published . Updated 2026-11-14. By the cisonews.net Desk.

RevSpring, a technology company that runs the online bill pay platform used by healthcare providers, says an unauthorized person used one of its support tools between May 15 and June 1, 2026 to obtain information about patients, including Social Security numbers. The company found the problem on August 17, 2026, and its letter to patients was filed with California's attorney general on November 4, 2026. The letter gives no total number of people affected.

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What happened in the RevSpring data breach?

RevSpring describes itself in the letter as the provider of the online bill pay platform used by one of the recipient's healthcare providers. The information came from the back-end bill pay services, not from the provider's own systems.

On August 17, 2026, RevSpring discovered that an unauthorized person may have gained access to a support tool that could be used to look up information about patients who used the bill pay platform. The company says it opened an investigation, brought in outside cybersecurity experts and notified law enforcement. The investigation found that the tool was used successfully over about two and a half weeks, from May 15 to June 1, 2026.

That puts 77 days between the last day of access (June 1) and the day RevSpring found it (August 17), and 79 more days before the letter reached California's attorney general on November 4. California's record gives the same breach dates, May 15 and June 1, 2026.

The letter says the incident did not involve the healthcare provider's own environment or access to the patient's electronic medical record.

What information was exposed?

What was taken varies from person to person. The letter lists name, home address, email address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number and location of service.

It also says what was not involved: no details of medical care such as diagnosis or treatment, and no debit card, credit card or bank account numbers.

In the letterStatus
Name, home address, email, phoneMay be involved
Date of birthMay be involved
Social Security numberMay be involved
Location of serviceMay be involved
Diagnosis or treatment detailsNot involved
Card or bank account numbersNot involved

What is RevSpring offering people who got a letter?

RevSpring has arranged identity monitoring from Kroll at no cost, covering credit monitoring, fraud consultation and identity theft restoration. The credit monitoring is single-bureau: alerts come when a credit file changes, for example when someone applies for new credit in the recipient's name. To get credit services a person must be over 18, have established credit in the U.S., have a Social Security number in their name and have a U.S. home address tied to their credit file.

Enrollment is at Enroll.krollmonitoring.com/redeem with the activation code and verification ID printed in each letter. The filed copy is the blank template, so the length of the monitoring and the enrollment deadline appear only in the letters people received.

The company says it has added new technical safeguards and other measures. Questions go to a toll-free line, (844) 971-8621, Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Central Time.

How many people were affected?

The letter gives one count, for a single state: 216 people in Rhode Island. Two state lists have since added RevSpring. Massachusetts' consumer affairs office lists a report from RevSpring, Inc. dated November 4, 2026, the same day the letter reached California (breach 2026-1933): 1,591 Massachusetts residents affected. The only category it marks as breached is Social Security numbers. Texas's attorney general published a report from RevSpring, Inc. on November 6, 2026, with 6,252 Texans affected. Both counts cover one state's residents only. Washington's list did not include RevSpring when this site read it on November 6, 2026, and the national total is still unknown.

What the notice leaves open

The letter does not say how the unauthorized person got into the support tool, or which healthcare providers' patients are involved. It does not say whether the information has been misused. Each patient's own letter gives the date their provider was told.

How this disclosure's timing compares

RevSpring disclosed 79 days after the discovery date its notice gives. Across the 206 other state breach notices on cisonews.net that date discovery to the day, the median gap is 100 days.

California's breach-notice rule

California's breach law (Civil Code § 1798.82 for businesses, § 1798.29 for state agencies) requires any person or business that must notify more than 500 California residents of a single breach to submit one sample copy of that notice to the Attorney General electronically. The California Attorney General's breach list, where this notice was found, is built from those submissions. Source: California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting. The guide Data breach laws by state: notice deadlines and attorney general thresholds in 23 states reads the rule in full, and the glossary defines Breach notification law.

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Sources

  1. 2026-11-04 · ARevSpring, Inc., notice filed with the California Attorney General, published November 4, 2026
  2. 2026-11-04 · ACalifornia Attorney General, data breach notification record, published November 4, 2026
  3. 2026-11-06 · ATexas Attorney General, data security breach reports, published November 6, 2026
  4. 2026-11-06 · AMassachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, 2026 Data Breach Notification Report, published November 6, 2026
  5. undated · ACalifornia Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, Data Security Breach Reporting

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