“A ransom was paid as part of the company’s commitment to do all it could to protect patient data from disclosure.”
UnitedHealth paid the ransom and the data still leaked. Change Healthcare handles more than 15 billion transactions a year and one in three patient records, so the files “could cover a substantial proportion of people in America.” Most of those people never chose UnitedHealth. The compensation is two years of credit monitoring and a call center that can’t tell you whether your data was taken.