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UnitedHealth Unit Will Start Processing $14B Medical Claims Backlog After Hack

UnitedHealth Group said on Friday its Change Healthcare unit will start to process the medical claims backlog of more than $14 billion as it resumes some software services disrupted by a cyberattack last month. The company has been scrambling to …

Possibility of a Billion-Dollar Systemic Cyber Event ‘Is Real’

A systemic event and the threat it could pose to insurers’ portfolios is not the million dollar question, but perhaps the billion dollar question, according to Norman Niami, immediate past chairperson and member of The American Academy of Actuaries. “It’s …

Scranton School District Reports Ransomware Attack

The Scranton, Pennsylvania school district has been experiencing computer outages due to a ransomware attack last week. “The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services,” the school reported on Facebook last Friday afternoon. …

Hackers Roil Entire Industries With Attacks on IT Supply Chain

Across Paraguay, hackers knocked out online services provided by the foreign ministry and companies. In Sweden, they crippled the payroll and human resources systems of more than 100 government bodies, including the central bank and parliament, as well as hospitals, …

UnitedHealth Unit Change Healthcare’s Pharmacy Network Back Online

UnitedHealth Group said Wednesday evening that its unit Change Healthcare’s pharmacy network was back online, weeks after a cyberattack had a knock-on effect across the country’s healthcare system that depends heavily on insurance. Change Healthcare processes about 50% of medical …

Class Action Lawsuits Pile Up Over UnitedHealth Data Breach

UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people’s personal data from last month’s hack of Change Healthcare, its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to …

Cancer Clinics Face Cash Crunch After Hack Rocks US Health Care

Doctors across the US are stretching to keep their practices afloat as a debilitating cyberattack on a once little-known company at the center of the health-care system continues to cause havoc. The Feb. 21 attack against Change Healthcare, a subsidiary …

‘Exit Scam’ – Hackers That Hit UnitedHealth Pull Disappearing Act

The hackers responsible for the breach at UnitedHealth Group appear to have pulled a disappearing act on Tuesday, leaving their cybercriminal associates in the lurch and replacing their old website with a bogus statement from law enforcement. The U.S. insurer …

Physician Group Asks US to Make Funds Available to Doctors Hurt by Change Hack

Influential U.S. doctors’ group the American Medical Association (AMA) on Monday asked the Biden Administration to make emergency funds available to physicians hurt by ongoing problems created by the hack of UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare unit. The AMA said the cyberattack …

Hacker Forum: UnitedHealth Paid $22M Ransom in Bid to Recover Data

A post on a hacker forum popular with cybercriminals has claimed UnitedHealth Group paid $22 million in a bid to recover access to data and systems encrypted by the “Blackcat” ransomware gang, according to two researchers. Neither UnitedHealth nor the …