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Rules 1.1.0 · as of 14 Sep 2026
Owen Scott Muir · Said 28 Feb 2024 · owen-0898
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“The much bigger financial problem for United Healthcare is that the information in question is all protected health information, that, for an average of hundreds of days, was being accessed by somebody in a way that is a violation of HIPAA.”
Author relays a cybersecurity source's estimate that the going ransom for a breach of this scale is about $40 million, small next to UHG's $8.9 billion quarterly earnings. Read as an implicit estimate of the ransom UHG would face.
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