Intruders at HealthEquity rifled through storage, stole 4.3M people’s data


HealthEquity, a US fintech firm for the healthcare sector, admits that a “data security event” it discovered at the end of June hit the data of a substantial 4.3 million individuals.

Stolen details include addresses, telephone numbers and payment data.… The incident began in March but was only detected in June. The company said in a letter to those affected that it received an alert on March 25 about a “systems anomaly requiring extensive technical investigation and ultimately resulting in data forensics” and that work continued until June 26 – the point at which it became aware that criminals had stole sensitive data.

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Source: MSN New


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