UnitedHealth says data of 100 million stolen in Change Healthcare breach

UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time that over 100 million people had their personal information and healthcare data stolen in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, marking this as the largest healthcare data breach in recent years.

This data breach was caused by a February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare, which led to widespread outages in the U.S. healthcare system.

During the attack, the threat actors stole 6 TB of data and ultimately encrypted computers on the network, causing the company to shut down IT systems to prevent the spread of the attack.

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