Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare provides payment cycle management software for healthcare providers and patients within the US healthcare system. The company was founded in 2005.
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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records.
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Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans
The February ransomware attack on UHG-owned Change Healthcare stands as one of the largest-ever known digital thefts of U.S. medical records.
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UnitedHealth data breach should be a wake-up call for the UK and NHS
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. But it should also…
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,…
UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after 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’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.
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers
Kaiser, one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, said it was notifying 13.4 million members of a data breach earlier in April.
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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.
This is the second group to demand a ransom payment from Change Healthcare to prevent the release of stolen patient data in as many months.
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,…