Change Healthcare, the UnitedHealth-owned health tech company that lost more than 100 million people’s sensitive health data in a ransomware attack last year, said on Tuesday that the company has “substantially” completed notifying affected individuals about the massive data breach.
The February 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, one of the biggest processors of patient billing in the United States, resulted in months-long outages that disrupted care across the U.S. healthcare system. The data breach also became the largest known theft of medical data in U.S. history.
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