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UnitedHealth data breach leaked info on over 100 million people
Stolen data included social security numbers and more.
Insurance company UnitedHealth Group is confirming a ransomware attack earlier this year affected the private data of over 100 million people. According to the HHS FAQs page, Change Healthcare told OCR on October 22nd that it’s sent people about 100 million individual notices regarding this breach. As reported by Bleeping Computer, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty’s written testimony ( PDF) to a House committee said the threat actors got in by using stolen credentials for a Citrix remote access service that lacked multifactor authentication.
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