Centene sues Accellion over data breach incident

Centene Corp. has sued Accellion, Inc. over a recent cyber-attack on the latter’s cloud data platform that exposed its subsidiary insurer Health Net LLC’s patient’s data, Becker’s Hospital Review reported citing Bloomberg. Centene’s lawsuit is demanding the Palo Alto, Calif.-based cloud services provider to cover the data breach costs and seeking unspecified damages for the costs of responding to the attack, along with an order requiring to hold it “harmless” for any legal claims.

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