Change Healthcare data breach officially affects 100M

Healthcare DIVE October 24, 2024
Emily Olsen

The breach marks the largest ever reported to a portal managed by federal regulators.

Dive Brief:

• The massive Change Healthcare cyberattack could have compromised data from 100 million people — the largest healthcare data breach ever reported to federal regulators.
• The ransomware attack on the UnitedHealth-owned technology firm surpasses the previous record, a 2015 data breach at Anthem, now Elevance Health, that exposed information from 78.8 million Americans, according to a portal run by the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights.
• Questions have also swirled for months about the potentially huge data breach, given Change’s role as a major medical claims processor that handles billions of claims each year. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty estimated before Congress in May that...

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