UNITEDHELTH emphasizes that 190 million Americans were affected by the violation of Change Healthcare data
UNITEDHELTH confirmed that the ransom program attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected about 190 million people in America – nearly twice the previous estimates.
The Giant American Health Insurance Company confirmed the last number of Techcrunch on Friday after the closure of the markets.
“Change Healthcare has the total estimated number of individuals affected by the electronic attack on Change Healthcare is about 190 million,” said Tyler Masson, a spokesman for the United Relight Group. “The vast majority of these people have already been provided with an individual or alternative notice. The final number will be confirmed and submitted to the Civil Rights Office at a later time.
“The company is not aware of any misuse of individuals’ information as a result of this incident and the electronic medical records databases did not appear in the data during the analysis, “said the company spokesman.
The electronic attack, which took place in February 2024, is the largest violation of medical data in the history of the United States and caused the service to be interrupted for several months through the health care system in the United States. Change Healthcare, a giant in the field of health technology and a subsidiary of UNITEDHELTH, is one of the largest companies dealing with health, medical data and patient records; It is also one of the largest health care claim treatments in the United States.
Data breach Theft of huge amounts of information related to health and insuranceSome of which were published online by the infiltrators who claimed responsibility for penetration. Change paid health care later At least two ransoms to prevent further publication From stolen files.
United Health Put the number of affected individuals The number of people reached about 100 million people when the company provided its initial analysis to the Civil Rights Office, which is the unit of the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services that are achieved in data violations.
In data breach, Change Healthcare said that Internet criminals stole names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, e -mail addresses and government identity documents, which included social security numbers, driving license numbers and passport numbers. The stolen health data also includes diagnoses, medicines, test results, photography, care and treatment plans, as well as health insurance information. The change said that the data also includes the financial and banking information found in patients’ claims.
It was a breach ALPHV ransom gang is attributedA group of abundantly productive electronic crimes in Russian. According to the CEO of the UNITEDHELHELHELHELHELTH GROUP Group Andrew Wei for last -general, infiltrators stormed Change using the stolen account adoption data, which was Unea protected by a multi -factor authentication.
