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Anthony Spadafora

5.4 million hit in major healthcare data breach — names, emails, SSNs and more exposed

An open lock depicting a data breach.

Hackers continue to go after healthcare-related businesses in their attacks and unfortunately, you could easily get caught up in the aftermath as the result of a data breach. Case in point, millions of Americans are now receiving data breach notifications in the mail following a cyberattack on a medical billing company earlier this year.

As reported by BleepingComputer, back in January and early February, hackers stole the personal and medical information of 5.4 million people during a cyberattack at the American healthcare services company Episource.

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