Medical Chilling Giant Espisource alerts millions of people in all the United States that their personal information and health were stolen in a cyberettack earlier this year.
Violation affects more than 5.4 million people, according to A list of US Department of Health and Human Servicesmaking it one of the biggest violations of the year of the year so far.
Episeurce, owned by the UNITEDHEALTH GROUP Health Insurance Group, provides a billing adjustment to doctors, hospitals and other organizations working in the healthcare industry. As a result, the company handles large amounts of personal and medical data of patients to process claims through their health insurance.
In notifications filed California and Bermond On Friday, Episource stated that a criminal was able to “see and get copies” of patients and members from his systems during the weekly breach of February 6th.
The stolen information includes personal information, such as names, postal and email addresses and phone numbers, as well as protected health data, including medical records and data on doctors, diagnoses, medicines, test results, visualization, care. The stolen data also contains health insurance information, such as health plans, policies and numbers of members.
Episource does not describe the nature of the event, but Sharp Healthcare, one of the companies that works with Episource and was influenced by Cyberettack, told its customers that Hack espisource was caused by ransomware.
This is the latest cyberspace to hit Unitedhealth in recent years.
Changing healthcare, one of the largest US healthcare companies processing billions of health transactions every year, was violated by a ransomware gang in February 2024, leading to theft of personal information and personal information of Americans. Cyberettack was the greatest violation of health care data in US history.
Several months later, UNITEDHEALTH’s Optum Unit left the internet, an internal chatbot used by employees to ask for claims.
