Healthcare Data Breach: 1.6M Stolen
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Hackers steal 1.6 million patient records in major healthcare breach
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Laboratory Services Cooperative ( LSC ) has released a statement confirming it suffered a data breach.
Hackers stole sensitive information belonging to approximately 1.6 million individuals from its systems.
The breach raises significant risks of identity theft, financial fraud and misuse of medical information.
LSC is offering free credit monitoring and medical identity protection services for 12 or 24 months .
The LSC breach included lab results, diagnoses and treatment data, making medical identity theft a growing concern.
Use multifactor authentication ( MFA ) on all critical accounts like email, banking apps and healthcare portals.
Use unique passwords that are hard to guess and let a password manager do the heavy lifting for you.
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