UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty revealed that threat actors exploited compromised credentials to breach a @Change_HC Citrix portal lacking multifactor authentication, leading to a $22 million ransom payment. The cyberattack disrupted critical patient access and exposed sensitive information, highlighting the industry's legal responsibility to protect data.
Change Healthcare cyberattack was due to a lack of multifactor authentication, UnitedHealth CEO says https://t.co/50WdUTigwv
Change Healthcare cyberattack is a wake-up call for the industry https://t.co/SNlzEIw0d4
Change Healthcare Cyber-Attack: Inside the Disruption and the Lessons Learned https://t.co/YKLAum31CV
#UnitedHealthGroup CEO Andrew Witty sat before Congress to give his testimony regarding the #ChangeHealthcare ransomware attack, where Congress noted the massive amount of people and data to be handled by a single enterprise: https://t.co/95uT2OSqdA https://t.co/wAQ47woR4I
Change Healthcare hit by new cyberattack https://t.co/HVAiMaKL1T
Had to chance to discuss the recent #CyberAttack at United Healthcare with @bobgourley @ooda #RSAC2024 https://t.co/gowrxMKp3k
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty told a congressional committee that hackers breached a subsidiary of his company, the country's largest health insurer, by stealing a password and gaining access through a system that lacked multifactor authentication. https://t.co/wfD7cYKeji
The health care industry has a legal responsibility to protect patients’ sensitive information. At an oversight hearing this week, @RepPaulTonko spoke with UnitedHealth Group’s CEO Andrew Witty about how a cyberattack exploited inadequate security to steal patient data. https://t.co/kgDiti6ynI
During @HouseCommerce's Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing with UnitedHealth's CEO, Rep. Cammack asked about the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year. Amid the fallout from the attack, critical access for patients had been disrupted. ⬇️ https://t.co/PtMZfiCT4f
UnitedHealth CEO says lack of multifactor authentication led to breach, $22 million ransom payment. | By @DNTechHive https://t.co/hh9fAiP520
UnitedHealth CEO says lack of multifactor authentication led to breach, $22 million ransom payment. | @DNTechHive https://t.co/hh9fAiPCRy
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