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Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty,…

UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack

UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response…

UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack

UnitedHealth’s CEO said in congressional testimony that the portal used by the hackers to break into Change Healthcare was not protected with a basic security feature.

Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

The health tech giant processes 15 billion health transactions a year, and handles health information for about half of all Americans.

3:35 pm PDT • April 22, 2024
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

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UnitedHealth confirms ransomware gang behind Change Healthcare hack amid ongoing pharmacy outages

American health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare, which continues to disrupt hospitals and pharmacies across the United States. “Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cyber security issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself…

7:15 am PST • February 29, 2024
UnitedHealth confirms ransomware gang behind Change Healthcare hack amid ongoing pharmacy outages

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware,…

Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions

U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised, likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday,…

UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hacked by nation-state, as US pharmacy outages drag on

ReturnSafe, a symptom checking and contact tracing employee health management toolkit for businesses, has raised $3.25 million in financing from investors including Fifty Years and Active Capital.  With companies looking…

Austin-based ReturnSafe raises $3.25 million for its employee health management tools

Kaia Health, a digital therapeutics startup which uses computer vision technology for real-time posture tracking via the smartphone camera to deliver human-hands-free physiotherapy, has closed a $26 million Series B…

Kaia Health gets $26M to show it can do more with digital therapeutics

Investors panicked this morning upon the news Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway were teaming up to launch a health insurance company for their U.S. employees. Healthcare is one of…

CVS, other health stocks down upon Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire healthcare co news