"Healthcare Cyberattacks: Ransomware Gang Strikes Change Healthcare and UnitedHealth, Disrupting Services"
The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, leading to an ongoing outage affecting the Change Healthcare platform and allegedly stealing 6TB of sensitive data. The stolen data includes information from thousands of healthcare providers, insurance providers, pharmacies, and partners such as the U.S. military's Tricare healthcare program and the Medicare federal health insurance program. The FBI, CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services have warned that BlackCat ransomware affiliates primarily target organizations in the U.S. healthcare sector, and the U.S. State Department offers up to $15 million for tips to identify or locate BlackCat gang leaders and individuals linked to the group's ransomware attacks.
- Ransomware gang claims they stole 6TB of Change Healthcare data BleepingComputer
- Cyberattack on insurance giant disrupting business for doctors, therapists CNN
- US pharmacy outage triggered by 'Blackcat' ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say Reuters
- Outages from cyberattack at UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare extend to seventh day as pharmacies deploy workarounds CNBC
- Nebraska state hospitals affected by cyber attack KETV Omaha
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