Change Healthcare to begin notifying patients that cyberattack compromised their private info
Change Healthcare is beginning the process of notifying a “substantial proportion” of Americans that their private information, such as Social Security numbers and medical diagnoses, was compromised in the cyberattack that brought portions of the U.S. health care system to a halt earlier this year.
On Thursday, Change will begin to notify health care providers, insurance companies, and other customers that their patients’ data was stolen in the company’s February cyberattack, the company said in a statement. Change, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, plans to send letters to individual patients starting in late July.
