UnitedHealth has confirmed, for the first time, that the data of 100 million American citizens were compromised in the hack earlier in the year.
The February cyberattack targeted UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare unit. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was notified by Change Healthcare that “approximately 100 million individual notices have been sent regarding this breach,” according to an Oct. 24 update on the federal agency’s website with its data breach portal reflecting the revised numbers.
In May, during a House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the hacking incident, UnitedHealth CEO Sir Andrew Witty told lawmakers that the breach impacted a third of Americans, who could have had their sensitive health information leaked to the dark web. The 100-million mark makes the incident the largest-ever health care data breach in the country….