Minnesota Epilepsy Group breach exposes information of 82,574 people
Unauthorised network access at Minnesota Epilepsy Group in August affected the information of 82,574 people. Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and treatment and insurance information were exposed. This was the second cyber-attack disclosed this year, and no link to the earlier incident affecting 80,061 people has been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Minnesota Epilepsy Group
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-08
- Scale of damage
- Personal, treatment and insurance information of 82,574 people
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised network access
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- Disclosed its second cyber-attack of the year, in which a network intrusion in August affected the information of 82,574 people.
- A link to the earlier breach affecting 80,061 people remained unconfirmed.
2 related reports
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