At least 26 million people have had their personal data stolen from Conduent, a company that provides printing, payment, and document processing services for some of the largest health insurance providers in the country. Some are already calling it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history, exposing addresses, social security numbers, and health information to ransomware hackers.
Conduent first discovered it was the victim of a “cyber incident” over a year ago on January 13, 2025, according to a notice posted online by the company. The breach itself happened from October 21, 2024, to January 13, 2025, and involved data held by Conduent because the company provides services to health plans.
The data included names, social security numbers, unspecified medical information, and health insurance information. The company emphasized in its notice that “not every data element was present for every individual,” meaning that some people may have just had their social security number stolen but not their health insurance info, or vice versa.
The full scale of the breach is still unclear. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote last week that over 4 million Texans had their data stolen, but Fox News reports that number has jumped to 15.4 million people. Texas has a total population of 31 million, meaning that roughly half the entire state was impacted.
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Oregon reported on its consumer protection website that 10.5 million were swept up in the breach, which already brings the running total to about 26 million. But residents of other states have also received notices, including people in California, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Mexico. Some of the states have relatively small numbers, like Maine, which has just 374 people whose data was exposed, according to the state’s Attorney General.
Conduent, which is based in New Jersey, didn’t respond to questions asking about the full scope of the hack and what victims can do about it via email on Tuesday.
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Source: ‘Likely the Largest Breach in U.S. History’: What You Need to Know About the Conduent Fiasco
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