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Now 1.6M people had SSNs, life chapter and verse stolen from insurance IT biz

The Register · Iain Thomson · last updated

A Texas firm that provides backend IT and other services for American insurers has admitted twice as many people had their info stolen from it than previously disclosed.…

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