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.
