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Sead Fadilpašić

United Health confirms largest ever US healthcare data breach, says 100 million users had info stolen

ID theft.

The number of people affected by the Change Healthcare ransomware attack earlier in 2024 is now thought to have affected around 100 million people, new reports have confirmed.

The attack on Change Healthcare took place in February 2024, and is now thought to be the most disruptive ransomware attacks ever to strike the US healthcare industry after the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights updated the number on its data breach portal to 100 million.

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