Change Healthcare ransomware attack and data theft
Add to my breach checkMade public · 192,700,000 people
What leaked12
Hard to replace
- Driver's licence number
- Health insurance or Medicare number
- Passport number
- Bank account number
- Mobile number
- Home or delivery address
- Email address
- Other profile data
Permanent
- Health information
- Social Security number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Health informationmedical record numbers, providers, diagnoses, medicines, test results, images, care and treatment; varies by person
- Driver's licence numberdriver's licence or state ID number
- Health insurance or Medicare numberhealth insurance details: plans, insurers, member and group ID numbers, Medicaid and Medicare ID numbers
- Bank account numberaccount numbers, financial and banking information
- Mobile numberphone number · type not stated
- Full namecontact information; not the same for every person
- Other profile databilling and payment information including payment cards · card details not stated
To-dos13 · about 3 h 30 min in all
- Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionStops: credit in your name · Limits harm from: applications with your ID (opens in a new tab)
- Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsLimits harm from: credit in your name, applications with your ID (opens in a new tab)
- Check your credit reports every week, freeHelps you notice: credit in your name, applications with your ID (opens in a new tab)
- If threatened: do not pay, keep the messages, report it to the policeLimits harm from: extortion
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PINStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
8 more
- This weekTurn on instant transaction alertsHelps you notice: bank account fraud, scam calls
- When convenientKnow the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: phishing messages, scam calls
- When convenientTurn on your carrier's port-out lockLimits harm from: SIM swap
- When convenientTurn on your carrier's SIM-change lockLimits harm from: SIM swap
- When convenientFreeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
- When convenientCheck your health insurance statements for care you did not getHelps you notice: medical care in your name (opens in a new tab)
- When convenientRemove your address and phone from public profiles and tighten SNS privacyLimits harm from: visits or contact at home
- When convenientUse an authenticator app or passkey instead of SMS codesLimits harm from: SMS code theft
What happened next19 events
Remedy: 1 event
Back to latest- Offered a dedicated call centre and two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to anyone affected
- Company
- Change Healthcare
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 192,700,000 people · approx.; Change Healthcare's report to HHS, July 31, 2025
How the facts developed
- Count reported to HHS rose to about 192.7 million people (about 190 million in January 2025)
- HIPAA media notice: contact details plus, depending on the person, health insurance, health, billing and payment data, Social Security, driver's licence or passport numbers
Sources
- UnitedHealth Group company filing (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- Silicon UK press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- UnitedHealth Group CEO written testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee company notice (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota court (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- Nebraska Examiner press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026