Insurance company UnitedHealth Group is confirming a ransomware attack earlier this year affected the private data of over 100 million people. The number was published in the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Breach Report on Thursday, making it the largest healthcare data breach on the list.

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth blamed a ransomware gang for the data breach that included a substantial proportion of America's health data. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The scope of the attack makes it the largest healthcare data breach ever, surpassing an Anthem incident in 2015 that affected almost 79 million Americans. According to a testimony