UnitedHealth paid ransom to bad actors, says patient data was compromised in Change Healthcare cyberattack

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UnitedHealth Group on Monday said it paid a ransom to cyber threat actors to try and protect patient data.

The company disclosed in February that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was the victim of a cyberattack.

The fallout from the breach has been felt across the health-care sector, as many doctors were left without a way to fill prescriptions or get paid for their services.

UnitedHealth said in the release that 22 screenshots, allegedly of the compromised files, have been uploaded to the dark web. The company said no other data has been published, and it has not seen evidence that doctors' charts or full medical histories were accessed in the breach.

The call center will not be able to offer any details about individual data impact given the"ongoing nature and complexity of the data review," UnitedHealth said.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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