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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach (techcrunch.com)

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UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, blamed a Russia-based ransomware gang for the huge data breach of U.S. medical data.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Was wondering how so many people since I’ve never heard of Change Healthcare:

Change Healthcare is one of the largest handlers of health, medical data, and patient records, as it processes patient insurance and billing across the U.S. healthcare sector, including thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and medical practices. As such, Change handles huge amounts of health and medical-related information on around a third of all Americans