UnitedHealth Group announces that the number of victims in the Change Healthcare data breach has risen to 190 million, almost twice the reported figure in July 2024. The breach, claimed to be the largest healthcare data breach in history, impacted over half of the U.S population and was executed by BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware actors, who exfiltrated six terabytes of data. UnitedHealth paid a $22 million ransom to recover system access.
Efforts to modernize healthcare data advancing
Dr. Tabitha Offut-Powell, vice president of Public Health Data Modernization and Informatics, spoke at the HIMSS25 conference in Las Vegas. She stressed the importance of
