Yet another top US healthcare service provider has been hacked, with patient data exposed


Following the likes of ChangeHealthcare, Kaiser, Cencora, and several others during the past few months, another major US healthcare service has reported suffering a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of sensitive patient data.

This latest victim is HealthEquity, which was on the receiving end of an apparent supply chain attack. In an 8-K form, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this week, HealthEquity reported how earlier this year, as it was routinely monitoring its systems, it discovered “anomalous behavior by a personal use device belonging to a business partner.”

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Source: MSN News


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