The news, inarguably a long-time coming, arrives amid a swathe of data breaches, with at least 1 billion stolen records in 2024 so far. By way of example, the UnitedHealth-owned healthcare giant Change Healthcare was hit by ransomware attack in February, a data breach that saw health data stolen on more than 100 million people in the United States. The cause? Stolen backend credentials that lay unprotected by MFA.