one thirds of americans could have had their data breached due to corporate negligence

[moonshinegnomie]

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UnitedHealth GroupCEO Andrew Witty on Wednesday told lawmakers that data from an estimated one-third of Americans could have been compromised in the cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare, and that the company paid a $22 million ransom to hackers

The portal that the bad actors initially accessed was not protected by multifactor authentication, or MFA, which requires users to verify their identities in at least two different ways

once again a companies shitty practices resulted in people having their data stolen.
the company need to do more than just provide "credit monitoring". its time companies started paying a serious price for this.
Start with $1000 per person affected. as a minimum. and possible jail terms for the top executives.

then see how fast companies start taking data protection seriously. (last year united healthcare had revenue of over 300 billion



https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/unitedhealth-ceo-one-third-of-americans-could-be-impacted-by-change-healthcare-cyberattack.html

[Whiskeytide]

1. Do you have a link? Thanks. n/t

[moonshinegnomie]

2. i thought i included it

but it didnt paste it. fixed now

[ck4829]

3. And before I even clicked, I said to myself "the 'corporate' in question is going to be about healthcare, isn't it?"

And here I am, disappointed but not surprised that once again the "world's greatest healthcare system" is at the vanguard of getting data breached.

[ThreeNoSeep]

4. Just one third?

That seems optimistic at best.

[Stargazer99]

5. Capitalism is keeping costs down to increase profit-safety measures reduce profit-

Our societal god must not be disturbed by safety! I think this poster has a damn good idea-make it more expensive if business doesn't protect its clients

[XanaDUer2]

6. Livid I've been hacked twice

I've done everyone to protect my information and it was pointless. I called Morgan and Morgan to complain but i think nothing will come of that. I have 2 monitoring services.

[ck4829]

7. We need to get our financial data out of the healthcare sector

They have proven time and time again they are not trustworthy with our data

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. i get a letter a year about data breaches

[ck4829]

9. And I'm sure more likely than not, it's healthcare or health insurance-related

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It's time to get our data out of healthcare.

[Oneironaut]

10. Oh it's way more.

If you have data online, someone likely has some of it.

Imagine all the data breaches you DON’T hear about. Yeah…