Episource notify millions of people that their health data were stolen

The medical billing giant notifying millions of people across the United States that their personal and health information was stolen in an electronic attack earlier this year.

The breach affects more than 5.4 million people List with the US Department of Health and Humanitarian ServicesWhich makes it one of the largest health care violations this year so far.

Episource, owned by the OPTUM company, provides the Group Group Group, to adjust bills for doctors, hospitals and other organizations working in the healthcare industry. As such, the company deals with large amounts of personal and medical data for patients to treat claims through health insurance.

In notifications deposited in California and Vermont On Friday, Episource said that the criminal was able to “see and copy” from patient and members data from their systems during his weekly breach ending on February 6.

Stolen information includes personal information, such as names, postal addresses, e -mail, phone numbers, as well as protected health data, including medical records numbers, data related to doctors, diagnoses, medicines, test results, photography, care and other treatment. The stolen data also contains health insurance information, such as health plans, policies and member numbers.

Episource did not describe the nature of the accident, but Sharp Healthcare, one of the companies working with Episource and was influenced by electronic attack, told its customers this The cause of the penetration was Episode Ransomware.

This is the latest Cyber security incident that will reach United Holth in recent years.

Health care change, one of the largest companies in the American health care industry that treats billions of health transactions every year, Hate by the ransom gang in February 2024Which leads to the theft of more than 190 million personal and health information. The electronic attack was the largest health care data breach in the history of the United States.

After several months, the UNITEDHELHELTH Leave Chatbot internal Employees use it to ask about the demands exposed to the Internet.