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.
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot to death Wednesday, Dec. 4, outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan, where the company was hosting an investor day. Thompson, 50, was named CEO of UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealth Group's insurance arm, in April 2021. He ...
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 ...
An ongoing cybersecurity breach that hit the health technology company Change Healthcare this week has led to prescription delays for at least a few small pharmacies in the U.S., with some interruptions reported by bigger institutions like Walgreens, according to the pharmacies. Change...
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...
Number of consecutive years healthcare has had the highest average cost of a breach¹ $11M The average cost of a healthcare cyberattack² 39M Number of patient records impacted by healthcare data breaches in 2023³ 5% Of healthcare organization budgets are spent on cybersecurity⁴ ...
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 Wineinger, the plaintiff, against United HealthCare; Argument from the United HealthCare; ...
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...
Change Healthcare retained leading cybersecurity and data analysis experts to assist in the investigation, which began on February 21, 2024. On March 7, 2024, Change Healthcare was able to confirm that a substantial quantity of data had been exfiltrated from its environment between February 17,...
about the breach on Wednesday. The intruders got in through a server that didn’t have multifactor authentication — a basic cybersecurity measure used on consumer bank accounts — and got access to a hoard of health and personal data. Witty said the trove might cover one-third of Americans...