Centene Sues Accellion Over Data Exposed in Hack (Correct)

Centene Corp. sued Accellion Inc. in Delaware on Thursday over a January cyberattack on the cloud data company’s “file transfer appliance,” demanding it cover costs associated with the exposure of confidential information belonging to patients of insurer Health Net LLC, a Centene subsidiary.

Despite the “clear requirements” of its indemnification agreement with Centene, Accellion “has refused to bear responsibility” for expenses stemming from the hack, including the costs of remediation, mitigation, notification, credit monitoring, regulatory reporting, and attorneys’ fees, the complaint says.

The lawsuit adds to Accellion’s mounting legal troubles in the wake of the data breach, which compromised the ...