Bengaluru: the February trick in UnitedHealthChange’s technology unit affected the personal information of 100 million people in the US. health departmentshowed the website, making it the largest health care Data breach in the country. UnitedHealth has previously said hackers potentially stole a third of Americans’ data in one of the worst attacks to hit the U.S. healthcare sector. The company began notifying affected patients in June.
The number of people affected was published on a list of data breaches maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ civil rights office.
A breach at health insurer Anthem, now known as Elevance Health, in 2015 affected nearly 79 million people in the US.
He Change unit was breached by a hacker group called ALPHValso known as “BlackCat”. UnitedHealth first reported the breach on February 21.
The rape caused widespread disruption in claims processingimpacting patients and providers across the country. In June, UnitedHealth issued a public notice about the ransomware hack as part of its requirements to notify about a third of the country whose private data may have been exposed in the attack. At the time, the company said that while it cannot confirm the nature of the data affected by the breach, it could include health insurance member IDs, patient diagnoses, treatment information and Social Security numbers, as well as billing codes. used by suppliers. Earlier this month, the company forecast a business disruption impact of $705 million this year due to the attack that caused massive payments and other disruptions across the United States. UnitedHealth issued billions of dollars in loans to providers affected by the attack and incurred costs related to notifying customers of the breach.
(Reporting by Manas Mishra, Mariam Sunny, Christy Santhosh and Sriparna Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)
