Perlis, MD, MSc JAMA Reports of data breaches have increased during the past decade.1,2 Compared with other industries, these breaches are estimated to be the most costly in health care; however, few studies have detailed their characteristics and scope.1 Methods We evaluated an online data...
UnitedHealth Group said Wednesday evening that its unit Change Healthcare’s pharmacy network was back online, weeks after a cyberattack had a knock-on effect across the country’s healthcare system that depends heavily on insurance. Change Healthcare processes about 50% of medical claims in the...
Change Healthcare helps pharmacies verify a patient’s insurance coverage for their prescriptions, and some reports indicate that some people have been forced to pay for their prescriptions in cash, theTimesreported. Shortly after UnitedHealth discovered the security breach, the company shut down...
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 ...
UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people’s personal data fromlast month’s hack of Change Healthcare, its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to come. ...
UnitedHealth blamed the breach on a Russian ransomware gang known as ALPHV or BlackCat. The group itself claimed responsibility for the attack, alleging it stole more than six terabytes of data, including "sensitive" medical records, from Change Healthcare, which processes health insurance claims ...
Prices & Access Statistics Reports Insights Research AI New Daily Data Services Internet› Cyber Crime & Security Online privacy regulations in the United States - statistics & facts As of July 2023, the United States had several digital privacy regulations, which exist either on state lev...
Initial media reports have focused on the impact on pharmacies, but techies say that's understating the issue. The American Hospital Associationsaysmany of its members aren't getting paid and that doctors can't check whether patients have coverage for care. ...
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UnitedHealth CEO to say hackers used stolen login credentials, Reuters reports TheFlyMay 01, 2024, 05:58 PM A+ A- UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say before a U.S. House panel on Wednesday that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach its network on February 12...