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HealthEquity Data Breach Affects 4.3 Million People (techcrunch.com) 16

HealthEquity is notifying 4.3 million people following a March data breach that affects their personal and protected health information. From a report: In its data breach notice, filed with Maine's attorney general, the Utah-based healthcare benefits administrator said that although the compromised data varies by person, it largely consists of sign-up information for accounts and information about benefits that the company administers.

HealthEquity said the data may include customer names, addresses, phone numbers, their Social Security number, information about the person's employer and the person's dependent (if any), and some payment card information. HealthEquity provides employees at companies across the United States access to workplace benefits, like health savings accounts and commuter options for public transit and parking. At its February earnings, HealthEquity said it had more than 15 million total customer accounts.

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HealthEquity Data Breach Affects 4.3 Million People

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  • by smooth wombat ( 796938 ) on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:47AM (#64667036) Journal
    HealthEquity said the data may include customer names, addresses, phone numbers, their Social Security number, information about the personÃ(TM)s employer and the person's dependent (if any), and some payment card information.

    Funny how that information is the exact same thing companies generally use to identify you when you call them or try to use their online services.
  • Didja save lots of money when you fired all those exhaustively qualified IT workers?

  • by gabrieltss ( 64078 ) on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @12:42PM (#64667206)
    Time for some PRISON time for executives at companies for this stuff. It is getting TOTALLY out of hand!
    • That's right, go after the victims. That's always a good strategy.

      Yes, I agree that a *lawsuit* is appropriate here, for careless storage of other people's valuable data. But prison time? No.

      Consignment store owner gets robbed. "You didn't lock up your merchandise well enough, you need to go to jail!" No, that makes no sense. "You need to pay back the owners of the things you were hired to sell"--yes, that's more like it.

      • The people whose data was stolen ARE the victims. The company that failed to secure that data are not.

        Companies like this need to be punished and made an example of. So hopefully companies will start taking data security more seriously. And maybe there will be fewer VICTIMS data exposed.
        • Think about the consignment shop example. Both the shop and the owners of the merchandise, are victims of the actual thieves. Yes, the company is indeed also a victim here.

          • We will have to agree to disagree on this.
            • No logic, no counter-argument, you just have your mind made up, I see. Got it.

              • Your of the mindset the companies are the victims and I disagree. Simple as that.
                • My point of view at least has a rationale to support it. You either don't have a rationale, or you have one that even you don't believe is logical. That's not a disagreement, that's just religion.

                  • No my logic is sound. Not religion. You can try and defend companies with poor security practices a you want. But they are still making victims of the people who's data they harvest and then let get leaked. Those companies need to be held criminally liable, period. If you don't mind your data being harvested and leaked that's on you. But I'm pretty sure that at least %80-90 of the people who's data gets leaked are not going to say the company who allowed it to happen is the victim. I think your in a very sm
                    • So if a consignment shop has a glass door at the front of their store, instead of a vault door, and a burglar smashes the door and steals some of the merchandise, it's the store owner's fault? Not at all, the store owner is still a victim. Are the product owners also victims? Yes. But they aren't victims of the store owner, unless the store owner was negligent.

                      The same goes with digital theft. Unless the company was negligent, and this has not been alleged, the company is just as much a victim as the indivi

                    • Welcome to /dev/null.
  • ...but you do know the name WageWorks? Same people.

    Whoever hacked them, please add money to my health care flexible spending account, thanks.

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