Remember the Change Healthcare hack? It’s now gotten worse. According to TechCrunch, American’s medical records have been leaked:
In a statement Thursday, Change Healthcare said it has begun the process of notifying affected individuals whose information was stolen during the cyberattack.
The health tech giant, owned by U.S. insurance conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, processes patient insurance and billing for thousands of hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices across the U.S. healthcare sector. As such, the company has access to massive amounts of health information on about a third of all Americans.
The cyberattack prompted the company to shut down its systems, resulting in outages and delays to thousands of healthcare providers who rely on Change, and affecting countless patients who could not obtain prescriptions or had medical care or procedures delayed.
Change said in its latest statement that it “cannot confirm exactly” what data was stolen about each individual, and that the information may vary from person to person.
The affected information includes personal information, such as names and addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses, as well as government identity documents, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses and passport numbers.
The data also includes medical records and health information, such as diagnoses, medications, test results, medications, imaging, and care and treatment plans, said Change. The hackers stole health insurance information, including plan and policy details, as well as billing, claims and payment information, which Change said includes financial and banking information.
This is bad. This is really bad. This illustrates what can happen when an organization doesn’t properly secure their network. In short, people suffer. And in this case a whole lot of people are going to suffer because their personal information is out there. Change Healthcare really needs to be taken to the woodshed over this and be made an example of to show that this is unacceptable and companies need to do much better.
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Change Healthcare Admits That Hack Resulted In The Theft Of Medical Records
Remember the Change Healthcare hack? It’s now gotten worse. According to TechCrunch, American’s medical records have been leaked:
In a statement Thursday, Change Healthcare said it has begun the process of notifying affected individuals whose information was stolen during the cyberattack.
The health tech giant, owned by U.S. insurance conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, processes patient insurance and billing for thousands of hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices across the U.S. healthcare sector. As such, the company has access to massive amounts of health information on about a third of all Americans.
The cyberattack prompted the company to shut down its systems, resulting in outages and delays to thousands of healthcare providers who rely on Change, and affecting countless patients who could not obtain prescriptions or had medical care or procedures delayed.
Change said in its latest statement that it “cannot confirm exactly” what data was stolen about each individual, and that the information may vary from person to person.
The affected information includes personal information, such as names and addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and email addresses, as well as government identity documents, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses and passport numbers.
The data also includes medical records and health information, such as diagnoses, medications, test results, medications, imaging, and care and treatment plans, said Change. The hackers stole health insurance information, including plan and policy details, as well as billing, claims and payment information, which Change said includes financial and banking information.
This is bad. This is really bad. This illustrates what can happen when an organization doesn’t properly secure their network. In short, people suffer. And in this case a whole lot of people are going to suffer because their personal information is out there. Change Healthcare really needs to be taken to the woodshed over this and be made an example of to show that this is unacceptable and companies need to do much better.
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