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As the Change Healthcare outage drags on, fears grow that patient data could spill online

Questions remain about the security of millions of patient records after a ransomware attack claimed a huge theft — and then vanished.

As the near-term impact of the ongoing outages on patients and providers becomes clearer, questions remain about the security of millions of people’s highly sensitive medical information handled by Change Healthcare. From Russia, a prolific ransomware gang taking credit for the cyberattack on Change Healthcare claimed — without yet publishing evidence — to have stolen enormous banks containing millions of patients’ private medical data from the health tech giant’s systems. The affiliate claimed in the post that ALPHV/BlackCat stole the $22 million ransom that Change Healthcare allegedly paid to decrypt their files and prevent data leaking, as first reported by veteran security watcher DataBreaches.net.

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