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UnitedHealth Cyberattack Disrupts Prescription Drug Coverage – The New York Times

Updated on February 27th to include new corporate statement. A cyber attack on a division of United Healthcare, the country’s largest insurance company, disrupted prescription drug orders at thousands of pharmacies for about a week. The attack on Change Healthcare, a division of United Airlines Optum, was discovered last Wednesday. Two senior federal law enforcement […]

Outages from cyberattack at UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare extend to seventh day as pharmacies deploy workarounds – CNBC

Change Healthcare provides tools for payment and revenue cycle management, and its outage disrupted operations at pharmacies and health systems across the country. UnitedHealth announced late Monday night that more than 90% of its pharmacies nationwide have set up a modified electronic claims processing workaround, and the remaining pharmacies have set up offline processing systems. […]

UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare down for a fourth day following cyberattack – CNBC

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, USA Mike Bradley | Bloomberg | Getty Images Change Healthcare’s systems have been down for the fourth day in a row since parent company UnitedHealth Group disclosed Wednesday that a suspected cybersecurity threat actor had accessed parts of the company’s information technology network. . UnitedHealth, the largest […]

AT&T says outage not caused by cyberattack

AT&T announced Thursday night that based on an initial investigation, the outages that occurred across the country earlier in the day were not caused by a cyberattack. “Based on our initial investigation, we believe this outage was not caused by a cyber-attack, but rather by the incorrect application and execution of processes used when expanding […]

Pharmacies nationwide face delays as health-care tech company reports cyberattack

Pharmacies across the country are reporting delays in prescription orders due to a cyberattack on the nation’s largest healthcare technology company. Change Healthcare, a company that processes orders and patient payments across the United States, first became aware of a “cybersecurity issue” impacting its network on the East Coast Wednesday morning. “Change Healthcare has experienced […]

Pharmacies Face Delays amid Cyberattack on Prescription Processor

Pharmacies across the U.S. are facing delays following a cyberattack on healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare, a leading prescription processing company. Change Healthcare announced Wednesday that it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cybersecurity issue.” “After becoming aware of the external threat, to protect our partners and patients, we took immediate action to […]

Pennsylvania courts never paid ransom cyberattack no demand issued from hackers

Pennsylvania’s state court announced Thursday that it has never received a ransom demand as part of a cyberattack that temporarily shut down some online services and prompted a federal investigation earlier this month. A so-called “denial of service” attack on the Pennsylvania Administrative Office of Courts website took down some online portals and systems, but […]