Girard Sharp attorneys are investigating potential claims on behalf of customers of Health Net, LLC whose personal and sensitive information was accessed as a result of a data breach that occurred in January 2021. The breach reportedly involves Accellion, a third-party provider of hosted file transfers, and is reported to have potentially exposed the information of over 1 million people.
If you received a notice of breach of data from any of the following, you may be entitled to relief.
- Health Net, LLC
- Health Net of California, Inc.
- Health Net Life Insurance Company
- Health Net Community Solutions, Inc.
- California Health & Wellness Plan (“CHW”)
- Centene Corporation
- CalViva Health
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More Information on the Health Net Customer Data Breach
Health Net, LLC partners with Accellion, a third-party software vendor, to transfer large files, which can include sensitive personal information. Health Net reportedly learned from Accellion of a breach of its electronic systems on January 25, 2021. Health Net did not begin notifying customers of the breach for another two months, beginning in late March 2021.
According to reports, 1,236,902 patients and customers of Health Net—686,556 customers of Health Net Community Solutions, 523,709 customers of Health Net of California, and 26,637 customers of Health Net Life Insurance Company—and 80,138 customers of CHW, for a total of approximately 1.3 million people, are reported to have had their personal information impacted and exposed during the breach.
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