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--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UnitedHealthcare has announced a significant expansion of its Individual & Family Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plans, now offering coverage in 30 states. This increase includes new coverage areas in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming, as well as additional counties in 13 other states. With the inclusion of these new coverage areas, UnitedHealthcare now provides Indi...

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Earlier this year, Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) and key player in the U.S. healthcare sector, suffered a catastrophic ransomware attack attributed to the Russian-speaking group ALPHV/BlackCat. We already knew this breach stood as one of the largest in history.

Health insurer UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) just reported third-quarter earnings results that handily beat analyst expectations on the top and bottom lines, but its outlook for the rest of the year and for 2025 disappointed investors who sent UNH stock careening 8% lower.

More than 100 million individuals had private health information stolen during the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, a cyberattack that caused months of unprecedented outages and widespread disruption across the U.S. healthcare sector.

The February hack at UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare unit affected the data of 100 million people, the U.S. health department's website showed, making it the largest data breach in the country.