Data leaks and breaches are an unfortunate reality of modern life,as they seem to be occurring with relative frequency. The latest high-profile incident impacts customers of UnitedHealth Group, whose subsidiary, Change Healthcare, reportedly suffered a ransomware attack, resulting in the breach of ...
The $872 million includes "the Change Healthcare business disruption impacts and exclude the cyberattack direct response costs," which likely excludes any amount UnitedHealth may have paid to hackers in ransom. UnitedHealth confirmed on the day of the breach that the cybercriminals behind ...
The UnitedHealth Group said it is making progress in its recovery from one of the worst cyberattacks on a health care system in United States history.
The breach has alreadycost UnitedHealth Group nearly $900 million, company officials said in reporting first-quarter earnings last week, not including ransom paid. Ransomware attacks, which involvedisabling a target's computer systems, have become increasingly common within the health care industry. Th...
UnitedHealth, whose Change Healthcare unit was at the center of the breach, said it was aware of the statement and was “looking into it.” Blackcat said it stole data from partners including Medicare, the U.S. military medical health agency Tricare, CVS Health and other companies. ...
The security breach was first detected last Wednesday at Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group, and two senior federal law enforcement officials told theNew York Timesthat the hackers appear to be from another country. In a filingwith the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio...
A thorough forensic analysis with Alphabet’s cybersecurity unit Mandiant and Palo Alto Networks is underway, UnitedHealth said, without providing additional details about the source of the data breach. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Department Of Health and Human Services opened an investigation in...
The breach occurred, according to testimony and statements by the company, because UnitedHealth tried to integrate Change Healthcare’s technology system with its own without first ensuring that Change’s system would require multifactor authentication, a basic ...
The scale of the hack makes it the worst healthcare data breach in the country. BY REUTERS OCT 25, 2024The February hack at UnitedHealth’s tech unit Change affected the personal information of 100 million people, the U.S. health department’s website showed, making it the largest health...
Wyden questioned whether UnitedHealth knew how much personal data of its users was stolen. “You don’t have the logs to show what data walked out the door,” he said. Witty estimated that the data breach could affect about one-third of all Americans — which would be more than 100 mill...