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Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

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Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

Change Healthcare recently experienced a ransomware attack that disrupted the US prescription market for two weeks. The attack was made possible through a compromised account that did not have multifactor authentication (MFA) in place. Hackers gained access to the account and moved within the systems before exfiltrating data. The breach started on February 12, and after remaining undetected for nine days, the attackers deployed ransomware, forcing the company to rebuild its entire IT infrastructure. The company paid a ransom of $22 million to the attackers, but they failed to destroy the stolen data as promised. Change Healthcare has since restored its systems, with payment processing at 86% of pre-incident levels.

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