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HR firm confirms 4M records exposed in major hack

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VeriSource Services , a Texas -based employee benefits and HR administration provider, experienced a major data breach.

The personal information of about 4 million people was exposed in this incident, and it took the company over a year to assess its impact.

The breach was a criminal cyberattack carried out by external threat actors (hackers), as opposed to an insider mishandling data.

Four million people had their most sensitive information exposed, and for many, the warning came far too late.

This should be a moment of reckoning for how organizations define responsibility after a breach.

If it takes over a year to realize the full scope of a cyberattack, maybe the incident isn't the only vulnerability worth addressing.

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