- Changing health care underwent a huge cyber attack in 2024
- Disruption of this attack costs millions of organizations
- The company now reimburses loans to cover the losses of these disturbances
Unitedhealth Group is “aggressively” after small health care organizations that borrowed money following a huge cyber attack on its health change.
The attack would have affected nearly 190 million Americans, and was the largest violation of American health data, and was incredibly disruptive, systems only fully restored 9 months later, costing more than $ 2 billion to recover.
After the attack, loans without interest were offered by change to help medical practices with short -term cash needs. The company now demands that these funds be “immediately” reimbursed, certain organizations invited to reimburse hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few days.
Income losses
Optum, the financial branch of United, has now confirmed that it would retain separate funds until these loans are reimbursed.
Doctors with their own private practices used these loans to cover the losses of the disturbance following cyber incident, which cost a few hundred thousand – and some would have used personal savings to maintain afloat practices.
It should be noted that Unitedhealth has a net value of more than $ 470 billion (when writing), and CEO Andrew Witty made more than $ 23 million compensation in 2023.
Optum has collected more than $ 4.5 billion in debt of $ 9 billion, but as many practices have lost so much stoppage thanks to the disruption, many will find it difficult to reimburse the money due within 5 days that the Optum imposed, with a doctor describing as a “Shakedown”.
United Headhealth paid to the attackers of $ 22 million in cryptocurrency ransomware to recover his data – but the operation has always been closed in full, and the change has never recovered its data. Medical data is, of course, extremely sensitive and put anyone exposed to the risk of identity or fraud.
Via CNBC
