Category: cybersecurity

The cybercriminal organization responsible for hacking UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare has received a multimillion dollar payment in bitcoins, according to Reuters.

Lurie Children’s of Chicago has reactivated its Epic electronic health record platform along with other key systems, but its MyChart patient portal remains down following a cyberattack on the hospital in late January.

Some larger health systems are losing more than $100 million a day due to the Change Healthcare cyberattack, one cybersecurity firm estimated, causing industry associations to continue to urge action.

The Nebraska Hospital Association has received patient reports that scammers are reaching out and claiming to be representatives from state hospitals amid the ongoing challenges that Optum’s Change Healthcare has faced since a ransomware attack took th…

BlackCat, the Russian ransomware gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, had its website go down, CyberScoop reported March 1. 

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins said it has heightened security protocols amid Change Healthcare’s cyberattack. 

The American Hospital Association called Change Healthcare’s temporary funding program for providers affected by the cyberattack on the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary inadequate, while a U.S. Senate leader asked CMS to speed up payments to hospitals.

Optum’s Change Healthcare continued to deal with outages March 1, nine days after a ransomware attack took its systems offline. Here are seven updates.

Russia-based ransomware gang ALPHV/Blackcat, aka BlackCat, has made headlines due to its attack on Change Healthcare, but the group has been targeting healthcare for a while. 

It’s not just hospitals and pharmacies that have been disrupted by the cyberattack on Optum’s Change Healthcare — physician practices have been hit hard too.