LINCOLN- Nebraska on Monday became one of the first states to sue Tennessee-based Change Healthcare, a medical payments company targeted in a data breach that cost at least 575,000 Nebraskans their personal information and medical records.

Nationally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated that 100 million people, nearly a third of the U.S. population, had data stolen by hackers in that February breach because a low-level employee posted login credentials online. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers said he is suing because of the company’s carelessness in handling data and in how slowly it has notified people affected. He called the hack one of the “one of the largest” data breaches in modern history.

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