The Maine Attorney General’s Office has been informed a data breach in which confidential data of 4.3 million customers was exposed.
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Accordingly Health equitythe data breach exposed the sensitive data of millions of Americans listed below, with the fintech company stating that not all of the categories listed contained data on every individual. The data breach reportedly occurred on March 9, 2024, and was discovered on March 25. After the data breach was discovered, HealthEquity conducted an internal investigation into the origin of the hack and was able to trace it back to an online data storage location that was compromised.
The compromised site resulted in the unauthorized party gaining access to a “limited amount of data stored in a location outside of our core systems.” HealthEquity does not believe the stolen customer information was used nefariously and is offering affected customers two years of free credit identification, monitoring, insurance and recovery services as compensation.
What can be done about the data breach is that HealthEquity recommends that its customers monitor their bank statements for unusual transactions.
- First and Last Name
- address
- Telephone number
- Employee ID
- Name of employer
- Social Security Number
- Dependent information
- Payment card information
“During our investigation, we learned that a vendor’s user accounts – which had access to an online data storage location – had been compromised, allowing an unauthorized party to access a limited amount of data stored in a location outside of our core systems.” found HealthEquity
