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Personal data of about 11 million patients of HCA Healthcare Inc. was exposed in an online forum, the company said Monday. The largest US hospital operator discovered a list with names, email addresses and phone numbers, birth dates and information about their appointments. It didn’t include clinical records, payment details, passwords or Social Security numbers. Data breaches at health-care

The division of state government that handles food stamps has made progress in eliminating the backlog of thousands of Alaskans waiting for aid, but it still has work to do. Families must have their income checked periodically in order to keep receiving food stamps. But sharp delays in those recertifications kept families waiting months for food aid. In March, only 4% were done on time. But

June has been a record-breaking month for Earth. Key climate markers including global air and sea surface temperatures both surpassed previous records for the month (see ‘Temperature records broken’), and global sea ice was at an all-time low for June. Many regions experienced searing heat, with countries across the Arab world, southern Europe and Asia — including China and Japan — reaching

The state’s education department announced Friday that one of its servers was affected by a global cybersecurity attack last week. According to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), the breach targeted MOVEit software, a popular software used by many companies and government agencies. Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) learned of the breach on May 31, the same day MDE files on a MOVEit server