Posted 2/23/2024, 1:20:00 AM
UnitedHealth: Hackers Likely State-Sponsored Breach Change Healthcare System, Causing Widespread Pharmacy Outages
- U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said its subsidiary Change Healthcare was hacked likely by nation state hackers
- Change Healthcare provides billing services across the U.S. healthcare system, handling 1 in 3 patient records
- The cyberattack has caused pharmacy outages across the U.S. preventing fulfillment of prescriptions through insurance
- UnitedHealth has retained security experts, notified authorities and customers, but has no timeframe for restoration
- The nature of the attack and attribution to nation state hackers is based on UnitedHealth's assessment, details remain undisclosed