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Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach

Student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. For some students, their email addresses, mailing addresses, and phone numbers were also exposed. Guard.me is one of the world’s largest insurance carriers specializing in providing health insurance to students while traveling or studying abroad in another country. The insurance carrier also states that they are instituting new policies for increased security, including database segmentation and two-factor authentication.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/student-health-insurance-carrier-guardme-suffers-a-data-breach/

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