Change Healthcare Faces New Ransomware Threat

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A new ransomware group claims to be holding Change Healthcare's stolen data and is demanding a payment of their own, adding to the already messy ransomware debacle faced by the company.

For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has left hundreds of pharmacies and medical practices across the United States unable to process claims. Now, thanks to an apparent dispute within the ransomware criminal ecosystem, it may have just become far messier still.

several screenshots of what appeared to be patient records and a data-sharing contract for United Healthcare, which owns Change Healthcare, and Emdeon, which acquired Change Healthcare in 2014 and later took its name. While . “Our investigation remains active and ongoing. There is no evidence of any new cyber incident at Change Healthcare.” Brett Callow, a ransomware analyst with security firm Emsisoft, says he believes AlphV did not originally publish any data from the incident, and the origin of RansomHub’s data is unclear.

 

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