Twenty-two state attorneys general and some industry groups are urging Change Healthcare's parent company and regulators to be transparent and give more financial aid to providers as the firm recovers from a highly disruptive cyberattack and the industry braces for massive breach notifications.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has reported to regulators a health data breach affecting 13.4 million people stemming from the previous use of web trackers. Aside from reports expected from the Change Healthcare mega hack, the incident is the largest health data breach reported so far in 2024.
UnitedHealth Group's admission that information for "a substantial portion" of the American population was compromised in its Change Healthcare cyberattack sets into motion the likelihood the incident will become the largest health data breach ever reported in U.S. What other details are emerging?
Hackers who hit Change Healthcare stole sensitive personal and medical details that "could cover a substantial proportion of people in America," parent company UnitedHealth Group warned. The company faces mounting regulatory scrutiny and lawsuits due widespread disruptions caused by the attack.
The Department of Health and Human Services has not yet received HIPAA breach reports from Change Healthcare or parent company UnitedHealth Group about their massive cyberattack. HHS is telling HIPAA-covered firms and their vendors to do their duty if a breach affects protected health information.
The U.S. operations of a Swiss pharmaceutical maker has shut down nearly 200 blood plasma donation centers while the company responds to "network issues" that started earlier this week and have reportedly been caused by a suspected Blacksuit ransomware gang attack.
Cybercriminals launched 7.78 million attacks against U.K. businesses and nearly 1 million against charity organizations, according to the latest U.K. government survey report. But fewer than half of those firms reported the incidents to authorities, something researchers say is a concerning trend.
A Wisconsin nonprofit managed care organization is notifying nearly 534,000 individuals that their protected health information was copied and stolen in a recent attack by a "foreign ransomware gang" that also attempted - but failed - to encrypt the group's IT systems.
What do a California cancer research center; an Indiana ear, nose and throat practice; an Oklahoma ambulance company; and a New York billing firm all have in common? They're among the latest firms to report data exfiltration breaches, which have affected millions of U.S. patients so far this year.
A federal judge has ruled to certify a "contract class" of more than 1 million CareFirst customers in a class action lawsuit claiming that the health insurer breached its contractual obligations to safeguard their data, which was accessed by hackers in a 2014 cyberattack.
UnitedHealth Group has admitted data was "taken" in the cyberattack on Change Healthcare and has just started analyzing the types of personal, financial and health information potentially compromised. The U.S. is offering a $10 million bounty for BlackCat, which claims to have launched the attack.
As thousands of hospitals, clinics and doctor practices potentially have to notify millions of patients about the Change Healthcare breach, the American Hospital Association said the IT services firm and parent company, UnitedHealth Group, should be the sole sender of notifications.
A Mississippi women's health clinic has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group alleging the disruption in claims processing caused by the cyberattack on the company's Change Healthcare unit and the resulting IT outage is threatening to push the practice into bankruptcy.
The healthcare sector needs a 911-style cyber civil defense system that can help all segments of the industry, including under-resourced groups, to more rapidly and effectively respond to cyberattacks and related incidents, said Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health and a federal cyber adviser.
The administrators of the BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group claim law enforcement has shut down their operation. But experts and affiliates accuse the group's leadership of running an exit scam on the heels of a $22 million ransom payment by a recent victim - Optum's Change Healthcare unit.
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