Posted 4/8/2024, 1:00:00 PM
Change Healthcare Hit By Second Ransomware Attack Weeks After $22M Payout, Raising Data Protection Concerns
- Change Healthcare allegedly extorted by second ransomware gang, RansomHub, just weeks after paying $22M ransom to ALPHV
- RansomHub claims to have 4TB of Change Healthcare data and demands ransom within 12 days
- Theories ALPHV exit scammed Change Healthcare or rebranded as RansomHub to extort more money
- Highlights risk of paying ransom as data may still be retained and used for future extortion
- Change Healthcare's data protection standards now under investigation by US health industry watchdog
