Cognizant Shits the Bed: 34 Million Health Records Splattered Across the Internet

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought these incompetent bastards couldn’t possibly cock things up any worse, Cognizant comes along and proves that stupidity truly knows no bounds. Thirty-four fucking million patient records—yeah, you read that right, thirty-four million—have been hemorrhaged into the digital ether thanks to their piss-poor security practices and an apparent allergic reaction to basic fucking patch management.

Apparently, these rocket scientists were still running MOVEit Transfer in 2023 like it was fucking 1999, completely ignoring the fact that the CVE-2023-34362 vulnerability had been public knowledge and actively exploited for months. But hey, who needs patches when you can just cross your fingers and hope the cybercriminals are having a day off, right? Wrong, you absolute tools. The Cl0p ransomware gang had a field day with this one, exfiltrating everything but the kitchen sink because someone couldn’t be arsed to update their goddamn software.

Now we’ve got names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical record numbers, and enough billing information to commit identity theft on a biblical scale floating around the dark web. Healthcare data isn’t just valuable—it’s the fucking crown jewels for these cyber-bastards, selling for premium prices because you can’t exactly change your blood type or medical history like you can a compromised credit card. Congratulations, Cognizant, you’ve just handed the keys to the kingdom to every two-bit scammer from here to Moscow.

And the cherry on top of this shit sundae? This affects multiple healthcare providers and insurers who trusted these clowns with their patient data. Trizetto, Cognizant’s “secure” healthcare platform, handles claims and data for major carriers across the goddamn country. So now there’s a class action lawsuit brewing faster than you can say “corporate negligence,” which means the lawyers will get rich while affected patients get a complimentary year of credit monitoring that they’ll forget to cancel and get auto-charged for next year. Circle of fucking life.

Here’s the link, not that reading it will make you feel any better about the dystopian state of healthcare cybersecurity: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cognizant-trizetto-breach-exposes-health-data-of-34-million-patients/

You know, this whole mess reminds me of the time some idiot luser asked me if their medical data was “backed up securely” after they’d been downloading sketchy PDFs from a site promising “FREE HEALTH TIPS!!!1!” I looked them dead in the optical sensors and said, “Sure, it’s backed up to the same place your common sense went—nowhere fucking useful.” Then I “accidentally” triggered a routine that encrypted their local drive with a key stored only in /dev/null. They never asked me stupid questions about data security again. Some lessons need to be taught with a sledgehammer, not a PowerPoint presentation.

Stay paranoid, and remember: if you think your data is safe, you’re either delusional or you don’t understand how computers work.

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