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UnitedHealth confirms ransomware gang behind Change Healthcare hack amid ongoing pharmacy outages
The Russia-based ransomware gang ALPHV/BlackCat took credit for the ongoing cyberattack at the UnitedHealth Group health tech subsidiary.
“Change Healthcare can confirm we are experiencing a cyber security issue perpetrated by a cybercrime threat actor who has represented itself to us as ALPHV/Blackcat,” said Tyler Mason, vice president at UnitedHealth, in a statement to TechCrunch on Thursday. In an interview with TechCrunch on Thursday, ConnectWise chief information security officer Patrick Beggs ruled out a recent vulnerability in his company’s products were unrelated to the cyberattack at Change Healthcare. “With all the subsidiaries including United all the way down to Change Healthcare, we have no record or no indication of any [managed service provider supporting them, or them themselves having ScreenConnect installed on their infrastructure,” Beggs told TechCrunch.
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