{"id":235722,"date":"2026-04-24T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/uh-cancer-center-cybersecurity-update-deadlines-approaching-for-free-credit-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:25:32","slug":"uh-cancer-center-cybersecurity-update-deadlines-approaching-for-free-credit-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/uh-cancer-center-cybersecurity-update-deadlines-approaching-for-free-credit-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"UH Cancer Center cybersecurity update: deadlines approaching for free credit monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/cancer-center-cybersecurity-update\/\">UH Cancer Center cybersecurity update: deadlines approaching for free credit monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/cancer-center-cybersecurity-update\/\">https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/cancer-center-cybersecurity-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-24 16:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.hawaii.edu\">www.hawaii.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> is reminding individuals who may have been impacted by the UH Cancer Center cybersecurity incident announced February 27 that deadlines are approaching to enroll in 12 months of free credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft insurance. After these deadlines, enrollment codes will no longer work.<\/p>\n<h2>Deadlines<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>May 31, 2026: Enrollment deadline for individuals who received Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) study notification letter codes<\/li>\n<li>June 20, 2026: Enrollment deadline for individuals who received email-based Experian enrollment codes<\/li>\n<li>May 31, 2026: Closure of the call center to assist all potentially affected individuals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kroll Call Center:<\/strong> (844) 443-0842<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hours:<\/strong> Monday to Friday, 3:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Standard Time<\/p>\n<h2>Cybersecurity incident<\/h2>\n<p>The cybersecurity incident involved historical driver\u2019s license and voter registration records (including social security numbers) used decades ago to recruit participants for epidemiological research studies. No information held by the UH Cancer Center\u2019s clinical trials operations, patient care or other divisions of the center was impacted.<\/p>\n<h2>Potentially impacted individuals<\/h2>\n<p>The personal information affected by the incident was located in a subset of research files stored on certain servers that support the UH Cancer Center\u2019s epidemiology research operations, including:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Two files containing names and date-of-births in combination with SSNs: the first, containing Driver\u2019s License (DL) numbers, was collected in the year 2000 from the State Department of Transportation; the second, containing voter registration information, was collected in the year 1998 from the City &#038; County of Honolulu. At that time, DL numbers in <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> were typically based on SSNs, and City and County of Honolulu voter registration information also often contained SSNs.<\/li>\n<li>Files for study participants in the long-running Multiethnic Cohort (MEC) Study (recruitment for participants in <span lang=\"haw\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/cancer-center-cybersecurity-update\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UH Cancer Center cybersecurity update: deadlines approaching for free credit monitoring https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2026\/04\/24\/cancer-center-cybersecurity-update\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gnrc-keyboard-cyber.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-235722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235724,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235722\/revisions\/235724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}