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UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach
UnitedHealth, the largest U.S. health insurance provider, blamed a Russia-based ransomware gang for the huge data breach of U.S. medical data.
The ransomware gang’s leaders later vanished after absconding with a $22 million ransom paid by the health insurance giant, stiffing the group’s contractors who carried out the hacking of Change Healthcare out of their new financial windfall. The contractors took the data they stole from Change Healthcare and formed a new group, which extorted a second ransom from UHG, while publishing a portion of the stolen files online in the process to prove their threat. Image Credits: Kent Nishimura / Getty ImagesIt’s unclear why the system was not protected with MFA, but this will likely remain a key part of the ongoing investigations by lawmakers and the government.
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