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UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months


Following its ransomware attack, Change Healthcare used website code to hide the data breach notice from search engines.

In an update to its data breach notice on its website on Tuesday, Change Healthcare said it has “notified its impacted customers” for whom the company has a postal address on file. Change Healthcare has been criticized for being slow to notify affected individuals of the breach — the company only started to do so four months after it had received a copy of the stolen files. The delay in public disclosure prompted several U.S. states, including California, Massachusetts, Nebraska and New Hampshire, to intervene by notifying residents to stay alert to identity theft and fraud following the data breach.

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