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UnitedHealth Group faced significant scrutiny during Senate and House hearings following a cyberattack on its subsidiary, Change Healthcare. The attack, which occurred in February, involved hackers exploiting a server that lacked multi-factor authentication (MFA), resulting in the theft of sensitive data, including U.S. military personnel information. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty, who testified in the hearings, revealed that the company paid a $22 million ransom to the hackers and that the hackers had access to the network for nine days before the attack was detected. Witty also confirmed that all external facing systems now have MFA enabled. The hearings highlighted concerns about the company's size and its impact on the U.S. healthcare system, with some suggesting that UnitedHealth's dominance could pose a risk.
UnitedHealth CEO defends insurer after major hack, reveals amount of ransom paid as senators question firm’s size https://t.co/M2FweCdSxy https://t.co/iIhtJ4iNF9
United HealthCare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of U.S. citizens were affected by recent hack: https://t.co/p20oGCdMFs by TechCrunch #infosec #cybersecurity #technology #news
NEW: Until today UnitedHealth only said "a substantial proportion of people in America" were affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a hearing today, UnitedHealth CEO estimated that "maybe a third" of Americans had their health data stolen. https://t.co/HjBMb2Vmc5
United HealthCare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of U.S. citizens were affected by recent hack https://t.co/DrCSFHP4xI
Recent cyber attacks have highlighted the need for health care companies to have systems in place to safeguard medical data. At today’s @SenateFinance hearing, I heard from UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on how Congress can help deter future threats. https://t.co/1MjzhYCMIq
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty appeared before Congress to answer for what lawmakers called a “single attack [that] kicked off a cascading series of crises that are unmasking some deep vulnerabilities in the core of our health care system.” https://t.co/GJO1sFtOeD
"We don't even know what data was stolen," Senator Wyden tells UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty, during a congressional hearing on the cyberattack that exposed millions of Americans' confidential medical information. "Your company, on your watch, let the country down." https://t.co/T2MyUIZ2MN
UnitedHealth CEO confirms in US oversight hearing that they paid a $22 million ransom to Black/ALPHV ransomware operation. Our previous coverage from yesterday: https://t.co/v1fYznVqbl
UnitedHealth CEO details cyberattack root, working 24/7 to 'fix this' https://t.co/7SEPqSEaxy
While most of the questions directed at Witty concerned whether UnitedHealth did enough to prevent and respond to the cyberattack on Change, senators also drilled into a central question that’s swirled around the entire debacle: Is UnitedHealth too big? https://t.co/LGRU718JBe
Chair @cathymcmorris to UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty: “You have a responsibility to protect the data of the people who have put their trust in you. And I'll put it bluntly. In this case, you failed.” https://t.co/BQ1P4aVWg0
In a US Senate hearing, the UnitedHealth CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) https://t.co/rv03ufJCj1 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/Kr4D9hdKu6
The portion of Americans that might be affected by the Change hack: "Maybe a third or somewhere near that level," UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty just told lawmakers.
Senators were not happy with UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty at today's Senate hearing. "‘Is the dominant role of United too dominant?’ Because it’s into everything, and messing up United messes up everybody." He faces the House next this afternoon. https://t.co/cK3BFn6JEu
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty took fire from both sides of the aisle during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of his company. https://t.co/3na3CYeX7g
.@UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty testifies on Cyber Attack & Impact to Patients at @HouseCommerce @energycommerce – LIVE at 2pm ET on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/9MkOkLrDdE
The CEO of UnitedHealth Group defended his unilateral decision to pay ransom in the midst of a major cyberattack against the company earlier this year. https://t.co/ltgnB7lClo
UnitedHealth CEO tells lawmakers the company paid hackers a $22 million ransom https://t.co/s7zo1bsND2
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty defended the company’s response to a disastrous cyberattack that snarled payments for doctors in the first of back-to-back hearings in Washington. https://t.co/OCiLD65ZXA
UnitedHealth is being grilled in DC today over a cyberattack in February that impacted the entire US health care system The sheer size of the company is one issue Congress is looking at The numbers speak for themselves https://t.co/z9aP1nlzNx
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty was expected to offer an apology Wednesday for the February cyberattack that crippled much of the U.S. health-care system. https://t.co/O9exGN0m62
Protesters confront UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty after a Senate hearing on a recent cyberattack on the company's system: “You can't hide; we can see your greedy side!” https://t.co/umkGYLxI1q
UnitedHealth CEO faces Change Healthcare hack scrutiny on Capitol Hill https://t.co/pMBszGHtso
UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack: https://t.co/Ulif7l2DKK by TechCrunch #infosec #cybersecurity #technology #news
.@UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty testifies on Cyber Attack & Impact to Patients at @SenateFinance @senfinance hearing on – LIVE online here: https://t.co/Hh0SDXlB1O
NEW: UnitedHealth CEO told Senators that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on "all of our external facing systems." The cyberattack against United's subsidiary Change Healthcare was caused by a server that did not have MFA enabled. https://t.co/1UkTnaKv9v
.@UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty on cyber attack: "The decision to pay a ransom was mine. This was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make and I wouldn't wish it on anyone." https://t.co/JYnuJF2jfs
.@UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty on cyber attack: "Patients and providers have experienced disruptions and people are worried about their private health data. To all those impacted let me be very clear; I am deeply, deeply sorry," https://t.co/tc8dUk4UnO
UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack https://t.co/iCs8HCDiKS
UnitedHealth is not too big to fail, the largest US health insurer's CEO Andrew Witty told a Senate panel on the company's recent cyberattack, after senators questioned whether its huge size might become a threat to the US economy https://t.co/vpwqX6Ehe9 https://t.co/kYReqKCelF
UnitedHealth CEO Confirms Breach Tied to Stolen Credentials, No MFA https://t.co/2KeYbZf9ed
.@UnitedHealthGrp's failure to implement bare minimum cybersecurity standards has left patients and providers in the lurch. UHG touches 152 MILLION individuals nationwide. That means nearly one-third of Americans could be impacted by this corporate negligence. https://t.co/m3rFGMUyZv
🚨 #CyberAttack(s) Alert 🚨 🔴Underground Team returns: 11 victims 🔴 Underground ransomware, identified in July 2023, is linked to the attack group Storm-0978, which also uses #IndustrialSpy ransomware. It was confirmed that the Storm-0978 group, known for using Industrial… https://t.co/PWYdCHMCnC
Change Healthcare hadn't confirmed the size of its ransom payment, but the CEO of its parent company UnitedHealth just told a senate hearing it was $22 million. That's the number we reported back in March. The blockchain doesn't lie. Updated this story: https://t.co/xMJrbNOejU
UnitedHealth failed to protect the American people’s sensitive health information. At today’s @HouseCommerce oversight hearing with the UnitedHealth CEO, we expect to get a comprehensive update on what happened, why it happened, and what they’re doing to fix this problem. https://t.co/Hp9YHBb0sZ
.@UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty testifies on Cyber Attack & Impact to Patients ay@SenateFinance @senfinance hearing on – LIVE online here: https://t.co/Hh0SDXlB1O
checking in on the UnitedHealth cyberattack hearing https://t.co/xBtrQo4Gtp
U.S. military personnel had data stolen in UnitedHealth hack, CEO tells Senate https://t.co/Lf6ugfgwAk https://t.co/QZTlWNw5dx
The @UnitedHealthGrp cyber attack is the poster child for why it's so important for massive corporations to abide by bare minimum cybersecurity standards. I'll be pushing Congress and federal agencies to implement *and enforce* new cybersecurity requirements to protect patients. https://t.co/ut2B69Hl71
At the Change Healthcare Senate hearing, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty confirms for the first time that the ransom $UNH paid for Change was $22 million.
UnitedHealth CEO Says Hackers Lurked in Network for Nine Days Before Ransomware Strike #cybersecurity https://t.co/PZv8qIzb6V
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty defended the company’s response to a disastrous cyberattack that snarled payments for doctors in the first of back-to-back hearings in Washington https://t.co/G7vYHf7iBf
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty tells the Senate Finance Committee this morning the decision to pay a ransom was his. "This was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make and I wouldn't wish it on anyone," he said.
The Senate Finance Committee is holding a hearing on the Change Healthcare hack, with parent company UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testifying. https://t.co/ZmIImitMB5
TUNE IN as the Finance Committee meets to examine the Change Healthcare cyber attack, @UnitedHealthGrp CEO Andrew Witty to testify. https://t.co/z3qMPLPT1O
🚨 #CyberAttack(s) Alert 🚨 🇺🇸#USA: LockBit ransomware group publishes 9 new victims in the USA on its data leak site: - Anatomage - A&L Immigration - Colonial School District - Concorr - Pease Construction - Yupo - Bluegrass Technologies - The Cordish Companies - Hooker… https://t.co/Px4azLcfan
UnitedHealth hackers used stolen login credentials to break in, CEO says https://t.co/CKWehgm99T https://t.co/UluGZUdYD8
Change Healthcare hacked through stolen password for account with no MFA https://t.co/4T6KZJfvDo
UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine' https://t.co/2pQGnMxd6V via @theregister
Change Healthcare Hackers Broke In Using Stolen Credentials, No MFA https://t.co/xK6rXUuhhC
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty says threat actors used compromised credentials to remotely access a @Change_HC Citrix portal — a portal that lacked multifactor authentication (MFA), a basic tenet of #cybersecurity. #infosec #ITsecurity https://t.co/tvj1GZlrvG
UnitedHealth CEO: 'Decision to pay ransom was mine' https://t.co/GUnH2ZuuoU
UnitedHealth: Hackers Exploited Remote-Access Software for Ransomware Attack https://t.co/gOJyFn4BIS
NEW: The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access company systems. These systems were not protected by MFA, according to the CEO of its parent company UnitedHealth. https://t.co/9XaBJO7n6R
Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO: https://t.co/xkI3r9C7oA by TechCrunch #infosec #cybersecurity #technology #news
Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO https://t.co/by9rdodhZd
In Congressional testimony, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12 (@zebatweets / Reuters) https://t.co/j37qbZkb8y 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/RqJ01QqC0p
🔴 #CyberAttack Alert 🔴 🇺🇸 #USA: Black Diamond Capital Management has reportedly been compromised by the BlackBasta ransomware group. The group allegedly exfiltrated 900 GB of company data, employee data, personal confidential documents, and customer data. Ransom deadline:… https://t.co/61dpbYHWjt
UnitedHealth hackers took advantage of Citrix vulnerabilty to break in, CEO says https://t.co/Lh4CanGt7x https://t.co/D0kQl69XSb
🔴 #CyberAttack Alert 🔴 🇨🇭 #Switzerland: Mikrona has reportedly been compromised by the 8Base ransomware group. The group allegedly exfiltrated various types of data, including invoices, receipts, accounting documents, personal data, certificates, employment contracts, a huge… https://t.co/RMhhZIqtkh
🔴 #CyberAttack Alert 🔴 🇦🇷 #Argentina: Lumina Americas has reportedly been compromised by the 8Base ransomware group. The group allegedly exfiltrated various types of data, including invoices, receipts, accounting documents, personal data, certificates, employment contracts, a… https://t.co/LognxIBNr9
.@UnitedHealthGrp reported April 22 that “a substantial proportion of people in America” could have had their medical information exposed in the #ransomware attack on @Change_HC. #cybersecurity #healthIT #infosec #ITsecurity https://t.co/lgP1qhrSya