Employee benefits platform Paylogix says hackers stole financial and health
Akira ransomware gang stole financial, health, and passport data on tens of thousands of people from benefits administrator Paylogix in November.
Hackers stole files from Paylogix's network between November 13 and 18, exposing Social Security numbers, financial accounts, health insurance information, medical data, passport numbers, and taxpayer IDs. State breach notices report at least 67,789 affected people, including 64,383 in South Carolina. Paylogix did not name the attackers but appeared on the Akira ransomware gang's leak site in January. The company notified federal law enforcement, is cooperating with an investigation, and faces organizing class action lawsuits.
- Akira gang listed Paylogix on its leak site in January
- Breach notices filed in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Vermont, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey
- Stolen data includes SSNs, financial accounts, health insurance and medical records, passport numbers
- Akira believed to have earned over $244 million per FBI and European advisories
- Vendors
- Paylogix
- Threat actors
- Akira
- Malware
- Akira
- Victims
- Paylogix
- Countries
- United States
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Hackers stole troves of sensitive information on tens of thousands of people from Paylogix, a tech company that provides benefits management tools to employers and insurance firms. The company has notified several state regulators this month and published its own notice of a security incident explaining that it experienced a cyberattack in the fall that disrupted its systems.
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