From PC World: Who is Conduent? If you asked that question this past week, you’re not alone. Hackers stole sensitive information on a sizable portion of U.S. residents from this major data processor, with the original estimate to be about 10.5 million back in October. But recent disclosures have shot the number of the affected to 25 million—which pushed Conduent back into the news.
The Texas Attorney General has called this debacle the largest data breach in U.S. history, but that claim is not true. (Examples of larger breaches include the 2017 Equifax breach, which affected about 148 million, and the 2024 Change Healthcare ransomware attack, which hit over 190 million people.)
What is true is the threat of identity theft and other fraud, given the types of data that flows through Conduent—and how this breach was handled.
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