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Conduent agrees to pay 80 million dollars over 2024 healthcare breach

Digital platform provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle a class action lawsuit following a 2024 cyber incident affecting 62 million people.

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Digital platform provider Conduent has agreed to pay $80 million to settle a class action lawsuit following a 2024 cyber incident that compromised the personal and health data of around 62 million people, InfoSecurity Magazine reported. A legal filing was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026. [1]

According to InfoSecurity Magazine, the settlement funds will cover material losses experienced by individual claimants whose personal information was breached. The money will also pay for credit monitoring and medical data monitoring services for each claimant, as well as the plaintiff's legal fees. [1]

Conduent is an American business services provider headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, which was formed in 2017 as a divestiture from Xerox. The company provides digital platforms for businesses and governments and employs over 54,000 workers across 24 countries. [9]

The court filing in New Jersey explains that the settlement agreement divides the affected individual claimants into two sub-groups. [1]

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In short

  • Conduent agreed to pay $80 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 cyber incident.
  • The 2024 breach exposed the personal and healthcare data of approximately 62 million individuals.
  • Settlement funds will pay for material losses, legal fees, and credit and medical monitoring for claimants.
  • A court filing detailing the settlement was submitted to the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on October 16, 2026.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

  1. [1]Conduent Agrees to Pay $80m to Settle Data Breach Class ActionInfoSecurity Magazine, 12h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]iRhythm Data Breach Affects 8.2 Million IndividualsThe HIPAA Journal, 5h ago
  3. [3]Hollys Data Breach: 2.76M Records Exposed in Koreashattered.io, 9h ago
  4. [4]Mercor Breach: 4TB Data Leak Claims Shake AI IndustryTechJuice, 19h ago
  5. [5]Hackers Steal Personal Data of Millions of California Students in Massive BreachEducation Week, 11h ago
  6. [6]Labcorp Reaches $2.3M Settlement with 44 Attorneys General Over Debt Collector Data BreachHolland & Knight, 4h ago
  7. [7]Data Breach at Japanese Karaoke System Maker Daiichi Kosho Affects More Than 8.7 Million PeopleCPO Magazine, 15h ago

Background

  1. [8]List of data breaches on Wikipedia
  2. [9]Conduent on Wikipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 9 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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