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BREAKING!: Second Ransomware Attack on Change Healthcare

BREAKING!: Second Ransomware Attack on Change Healthcare

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Apr 08, 2024
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There has been another ransom attack on United Healthcare's Optum Subdivision monstrously large and interconnected—and now repeatedly ransomware attacked—Change Healthcare.

Readers will recall all of American Healthcare has been royally *&%@* by the ALPHV/Blackcat cyberattack on Change Healthcare.

This is a photo of a man named Ransom E. Olds.

Well, everything was fixed. Ok, that is a lie. Not only is everything not fixed, but Change has been, predictably, attacked again by, in theory, another group of hackers.

Russian language criminals use the naming conventions of tech companies circa 2001, so they have a site called, and I am not kidding, RansomHub. As reported in The Register…

RansomHub claimed responsibility for attacking Change Healthcare in the last few hours, saying it had 4 TB of the company's data containing personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to active US military personnel and other patients, medical records, payment information, and more.

The miscreants …

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