Your Data For Sale On The DarkWeb: Thanks to UnitedHealth Group

"I think [it's] important for the country that we own Change Healthcare."

Well, it’s happened. Per reporting in Becker’s Hospital Review, the nightmare scenario has begun:

Your protected health information is being sold by RansomHub criminals for profit.

To review:

Change healthcare was acquired by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum subsidiary.

Blackcat/ALPHV’s contractors broke into change healthcare and executed a ransom for $22m in BTC.

Blackcat/ALPHV took the money, and disappeared. They stiffed their contractors who did the hacking work.

Other hackers (who may or may not be the same as the above hackers) reported having the data—nearly 4TB—including 1/3rd of American’s most personal information.

This cohort, who go by RansomHub, threatened to disclose this information if they weren’t paid another ransom.

They weren’t paid another ransom.

Now, they are selling our most sensitive health and personal information to other malicious criminals for profit:

"The information being published by RansomHub is pretty convincing, with screenshots of legal documents (trader p…