UnitedHealth Group disclosed Thursday one of its subsidiaries was hit this week by a cyberattack from an actor with a suspected nation-state association.
After detecting the incident, Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth said it isolated the impacted information technology systems from other connecting systems in order to contain, assess and remediate the problem.
UnitedHealth did not specify what the impacted systems are used for, but Rhode Island-based CVS Health — one of the nation's largest pharmacy operators — said some of its business operations were impacted by the network interruption. CVS Health said there was no indication that its systems had been compromised.
"We're continuing to fill prescriptions but in certain cases we are not able to process insurance claims, which our business continuity plan is addressing to ensure patients continue to have access to their medications," the company said in a statement to the Star Tribune.
In a regulatory filing Thursday, UnitedHealth Group said it learned Wednesday of a "nation-state associated cyber security threat actor" that had gained access to some information technology systems at Change Healthcare, a business unit that's part of the company's OptumInsight division.
given the plus minus statistics of the american health care system putting them out of business might save more lives than it takes, except that they'll just kill those people later._______________________________________________On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM Dave Taht via Nnagain <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 3:52 PM David Bray, PhD via Nnagain
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> https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/cellular-outage-in-us-hits-at-t-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-downdetector-shows/ar-BB1iHBMF
I had feared this was the natural outgrowth of the devastating DNS
KEYTRAP attack that was announced yesterday:
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/keytrap-dns-bug-threatens-widespread-internet-outages
But so far the bet on nanog is that "oops, cisco deleted the sim database."
I think they are being snarky about "the" sim database. I´m pretty
sure they are just being snarky...
> A cellular outage in the United States was reported by AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and other network users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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> The number of reports of AT&T outages peaked at 31,931 at around 4:30 a.m. ET, data from Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform, showed.
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> More than 800 service outages of U.S. wireless carriers Verizon and T-Mobile were also reported on the platform.
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> Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T did not immediately reply to Reuters' requests for comment.
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> And this - I was just on a call where it's clear this is increasing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/cyberattacks-on-hospitals-are-likely-to-increase-putting-lives-at-risk-experts-warn/ar-BB1ihhll
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> WASHINGTON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts are warning that hospitals around the country are at risk for attacks like the one that is crippling operations at a premier Midwestern children's hospital, and that the U.S. government is doing too little prevent such breaches.
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> Hospitals in recent years have shifted their use of online technology to support everything from telehealth to medical devices to patient records. Today, they are a favorite target for internet thieves who hold systems' data and networks hostage for hefty ransoms, said John Riggi, the American Hospital Association’s cybersecurity adviser.
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