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Technology
Anthony Spadafora

Thousands including children exposed in major data breach — names, addresses, Social Security numbers and more accessed by hackers

An open lock depicting a data breach.

Hackers primarily target adults as their accounts as well as their personal and financial information is worth a lot more. However, even children can inadvertently end up being victims of cybercrime which is exactly what happened with a recent data breach that exposed the information of thousands of minors online.

As reported by Cybernews, the health IT company Datavant has revealed that it recently fell victim to a data breach back in May. However, instead of targeting its systems, the hackers behind this attack first went after the email accounts of its employees.

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