Conduent has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action over the October 2024 cyber incident that exposed personal and health data of roughly 62 million people. The filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026, and confirmed in an 8-K filing with the SEC. The attack was allegedly carrie…
Scammers are exploiting the annual Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7) as a pretext to impersonate insurers, agencies or Medicare itself. Contact comes by phone, SMS, email, social media and malicious Google ads that lead to spoofed, official-looking websites. Lures include plan changes, card replacement, lower prem…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…