Change Healthcare

Change Healthcare provides payment cycle management software for healthcare providers and patients within the US healthcare system. The company was founded in 2005.

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records.

2:00 pm PDT • June 29, 2024
The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

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Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans

The February ransomware attack on UHG-owned Change Healthcare stands as one of the largest-ever known digital thefts of U.S. medical records.

6:30 am PDT • June 21, 2024
Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans

Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty,…

UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack

UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response…

UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack

UnitedHealth’s CEO said in congressional testimony that the portal used by the hackers to break into Change Healthcare was not protected with a basic security feature.

Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO

Kaiser, one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, said it was notifying 13.4 million members of a data breach earlier in April.

Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

The health tech giant processes 15 billion health transactions a year, and handles health information for about half of all Americans.

3:35 pm PDT • April 22, 2024
UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

This is the second group to demand a ransom payment from Change Healthcare to prevent the release of stolen patient data in as many months.

Change Healthcare stolen patient data leaked by ransomware gang

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware,…

Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions