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

Pages from the United Healthcare website are displayed on a computer screen, Feb. 29, 2024, in New York. UnitedHealth says files with personal information that could cover “a substantial portion of people in America” may have been taken in the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare business.

Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems that caused widespread disruption to the US healthcare system for weeks and resulted in the theft of medical data affecting a “significant percentage of people in America”. . In a statement Thursday, Change Healthcare said it has begun the process of notifying affected individuals … Read more

Global CDK outage caused by BlackSuit ransomware attack

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According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the BlackSuit ransomware gang is behind the massive CDK Global IT outage and outage of car dealerships across North America. The same sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told BleepingComputer that CDK is currently negotiating with the ransomware gang to obtain a decryptor and not leak … Read more