"Change Healthcare was a relatively older company with older technologies, which we had been working to upgrade since the acquisition," Witty said. "But for some reason, which we continue to investigate, this particular server did not have MFA on it." Multifactor authentication adds a second ...
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 ...
In March 2022, the District Court issued an order granting partial summary judgment to United Therapeutics with respect to the antitrust and unfair competition claims and granting partial summary judgment to Sandoz with respect to ...
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...
The ransomware strike that wrecked systems at UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare subsidiary will likely be the largest health-care data breach in the US to date, the company said. It’s also among the most costly hacks ever, denting UnitedHealth’s profit by as much as $1.6 billion this ye...
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 ...
COURT DISMISSES BREACH OF ERISA FIDUCIARY DUTY AND RICO CLAIMS AGAINST UNITED HEALTHCARE.Reports that the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska has dismissed Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) claims on a United HealthCare Insurance Co. health plan. Complaint of ...
InMarch 2022, the District Court issued an order granting partial summary judgment to United Therapeutics with respect to the antitrust and unfair competition claims and granting partial summary judgment to Sandoz with respect to the breach of contract claim. After a trial, the District ...
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...
United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley reached a proposed settlement to resolve allegations relating to an August 2021 data breach.