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.
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.
Oh, is that all? (Score:3)
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.
Hey Guys (Score:1)
Didja save lots of money when you fired all those exhaustively qualified IT workers?
Time for some (Score:3)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No logic, no counter-argument, you just have your mind made up, I see. Got it.
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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.
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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
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Lets be real most of those people's data has probably already been leaked and fairly recently by someone else.
I usually ignore AC, but I came here to say just this thing. There was a time I cared, now, everything about you is probably out there, so now I pretty much ignore these breaches.
I blame this state of affairs on our pwned and dumb politicians. If they had b*lls, we would have to have built a new prison for CEOs by now. Instead they get a bribe (contribution) and all is well.
If you don't know the name HealthEquity (Score:1)
...but you do know the name WageWorks? Same people.
Whoever hacked them, please add money to my health care flexible spending account, thanks.