{"id":220789,"date":"2026-03-06T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-3-4-million-patients\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:20:18","slug":"cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-3-4-million-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-3-4-million-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognizant TriZetto breach exposes health data of 3.4 million patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients\/\">Cognizant TriZetto breach exposes health data of 3.4 million patients<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 14:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<p>TriZetto Provider Solutions, a healthcare IT company that develops software and services used by health insurers and healthcare providers, has suffered a data breach that exposed the sensitive information of over 3.4 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which has been operating under the Cognizant umbrella since 2014, disclosed that it detected suspicious activity on a web portal on October 2, 2025, and launched an investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that unauthorized access began nearly a year before, on November 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>During the exposure period, the threat actors accessed records relating to insurance eligibility verification transactions, which are part of the process providers use to confirm a patient\u2019s insurance coverage before treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The types of data that have been exposed vary per individual, and may include one or more of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full names<\/li>\n<li>Physical address<\/li>\n<li>Date of birth<\/li>\n<li>Social Security number<\/li>\n<li>Health insurance member number<\/li>\n<li>Medicare beneficiary identifier<\/li>\n<li>Provider name<\/li>\n<li>Health insurer name<\/li>\n<li>Demographic, health, and insurance information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Affected providers were alerted on December 9, 2025, but customer notification started in early February 2026. According to a filing\u00a0Maine\u2019s Attorney General submitted today, the number of exposed individuals is\u00a03,433,965.<\/p>\n<p>TriZetto says\u00a0that payment card, bank account, or other financial information was not exposed in this incident.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the company is not aware of any cases where cybercriminals have attempted to misuse this information.<\/p>\n<p>TriZetto says it has taken steps to strengthen cybersecurity on its systems and informed law enforcement authorities of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Notification recipients are offered free 12-month coverage of credit monitoring and identity protection services from Kroll to help mitigate risks arising from compromised data.<\/p>\n<p>BleepingComputer has contacted TriZetto to learn more about the nature of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognizant TriZetto breach exposes health data of 3.4 million patients https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-06 14:50:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2024\/01\/03\/healthcare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24],"class_list":["post-220789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220791,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220789\/revisions\/220791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}