United Health’s Change Health was Black Cat or ALPHV

This is interesting, the fact that someone took responsibility is a miracle.

The attack, which forced UHG’s health technology giant Change Healthcare to shut its system down on Wednesday, was carried out by the Russian-linked ransomware cartel, according to Reuters, who spoke with two people familiar with the matter on Monday.

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Cybersecurity experts at Google’s Mandiant have been hired to investigate the breach, the two sources said. Mandiant confirmed in a statement it “has been engaged in support of the incident response” but declined to comment further.

From what we understand there wasn’t a ransom payment made.

“We are working on multiple approaches to restore the impacted environment and will not take any shortcuts or take any additional risk as we bring our systems back online,” Optum (a division of UHG) said in its latest update on the Change Healthcare attack Monday evening.

Other prescription services were backed up because of the ordeal.

Meantime, large pharmacy and supermarket chains, including CVS, Walgreens, and Publix, have all confirmed a “significant backlog” of unprocessed prescriptions while frustrated customers shared their experiences on social media.

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