UnitedHealth has acknowledged for the first time that over 100 million people’s personal details and healthcare data were stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware assault, making it the largest healthcare data breach in recent years.
During a congressional hearing in May, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty warned that the attack had exposed “maybe a third” of all Americans’ medical data.
A month later, Change Healthcare issued a data breach notification, stating that the February ransomware assault had exposed a “substantial quantity of data” for a “substantial proportion of people in America.”
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights data breach portal increased the overall number of affected people to 100 million, marking the first time UnitedHealth, Change Healthcare’s parent company, published an official number for the breach.
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