For the 140th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. To kick this episode off, we share our insights on what has happened in the…
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Ascension’s 140 hospitals in 19 states remain offline following a ransomware attack on Thursday. An unstated number of the facilities are diverting ambulances.
The health system says restoring the systems “will take some time…
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Ascension’s 140 hospitals and 2,600 healthcare sites in 19 states divert patients and go back to paper documentation following an unspecified cybersecurity event that forced the health system to take down “select technology…
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The chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group appeared in front of two Congressional Committees on Wednesday forced to answer uncomfortable questions on how it handled what is being described as the worst malicious ransomware…
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UnitedHealth Group CEO Sir Andrew Witty tells the Senate Finance Committee – which was questioning him about the Change Healthcare cyberattack – that the half-trillion dollar market cap UHG isn’t all that big….
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Jim Broome, President and CTO, DirectDefense
It’s not a matter of if but when an organization will face a security incident. In 2023, the healthcare industry faced its toughest year, with over 124 million health…
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On an April 18 conference call with Optum Everycare CEO Jennifer Phalen, some employees of the company’s virtual care division were told that their last date would be in July, according to a news report this…
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Sources say that members of the BlackCat ransomware group broke into Change Healthcare’s systems nine days before initiating the February 21 ransomware attack, using stolen employee credentials to log in to a remote…
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A second ransomware group – likely a disgruntled affiliate of the Blackcat/ALPHV group – threatens UnitedHealth Group with the sale of data that was stolen during the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare…
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Senators Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) announced Friday that they wrote to UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty asking a series of questions relating to what they called UHG’s lack of…
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