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“Concerns Mount as Change Healthcare Outage Persists, Raising Potential for Patient Data Breach”

Unitedhealth Change Ransomware Cyberattack

If patient data has been stolen, the ramifications for the affected patients will likely be irreversible and life-lasting. Change Healthcare is one of the world’s largest facilitators of health and medical data and patient records, handling billions of healthcare transactions annually. The cybersecurity director expressed alarm at the prospect of the hackers potentially publishing the stolen sensitive patient data online. For those on the front-lines of healthcare cybersecurity, the worst-case scenario is that stolen patient records become public. Do you work at Change Healthcare, Optum or UnitedHealth and know more about the cyberattack?

Kira Kim
March 9, 2024

Enterprise

Second week of LoanDepot outage continues following ransomware attack

LoanDepot customers say they have been unable to make mortgage payments or access their online accounts following a suspected ransomware attack on the company last week. Users on social media and forums discussing the incident say they have struggled to access their account information or submit payments. LoanDepot’s updating cyber incident page says several LoanDepot customer portals returned online as of Thursday, albeit with limited functionality. When reached by email, LoanDepot spokesperson Jonathan Fine declined to comment, but did not dispute that the incident was linked to ransomware. LoanDepot has not yet updated regulators on the company’s recovery since its initial disclosure to the SEC on January 8.