From extremetech.comA massive data breach at the US government contractor Conduent has exposed sensitive information belonging to at least 25 million Americans. The incident is so severe that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton considers it "likely the largest breach in US history."
Though the breach took place more than a year ago, cybersecurity experts only learned of its full impact in early 2026. Conduent runs back‑office systems for state agencies and major health insurers, handling Medicaid, children's health programs, public benefits, and some tolling operations. This means the stolen data contains names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birthdates, medical data, and insurance data. Some of this information belongs to families and patients with chronic conditions who never even dealt with Conduent directly.
I think I'm caught up in that, I received a letter in one of my virtual mailboxes from Conduent, I requested it to be scanned so I can see what it is, but I'm pretty sure I know. I wasn't sure what Conduent was though I'd heard the name before, so I looked it up and that's when I saw zillions of sites with articles about the breach. These breaches keep happening over and over, and they're always "the biggest breach in history". I've had multiple notifications from health insurance companies over the years about breaches and all they do is give people impacted a year of free credit report monitoring. Putting a credit freeze in place for all the credit bureaus is what is usually recommended, and the credit bureaus are required to do so on request, but they don't like that so they drag their feet and make it extremely difficult. After the last breach I managed to get a freeze in place at two of them but it took weeks. The third one would not go through, I tried for over a month before giving up. It's malicious compliance.
