HealthcareInfoSecurity reports that Conduent has updated its already-large data breach numbers:
The victim tally in back-office support services firm Conduent Business Services‘ 2024 hack has more than doubled to over 62.2 million people.
The revised, eye-popping total Conduent reported to federal regulators apparently in recent days brings the breach closer to tying the nearly 79 million people affected by a 2015 hack on health insurer Anthem Inc., which for nearly a decade held the infamous distinction as the largest health data breach ever.
That Anthem data breach record was broken by the 2024 BlackCat/AlphV ransomware attack on UnitedHealth Group’s IT services firm Change Healthcare, which affected a whopping 193 million people (see: Change Healthcare Now Counts 190 Million Data Breach Victims).
The latest update has Conduent’s hack on track to be at least the third-largest health data breach ever reported to U.S. federal regulators.
Read more at HealthcareInfoSecurity.
