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UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Cybersecurity

UnitedHealth Estimates Change Hack Costs Could Reach $1.6B

April 16, 2024
Optum Insight’s CEO tells analysts 80% of the processing hub’s most important operations have been restored since the mid-February cybersecurity breach.

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Ardent Health Services Hospitals Hit by Ransomware Attack

Nov. 27, 2023
Many of hospital operations company’s facilities are diverting emergency room patients to other area hospitals until systems are back online
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UCSD Establishes Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity

Oct. 3, 2023
With federal funding, UCSD center's researchers will focus on identifying early indicators of cyber threats through simulated ransomware attacks
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ARPA-H’s ‘Digiheals’ Project to Address Digital Health Cyber Threats

Aug. 21, 2023
Project will solicit proposals for technologies developed for national security and apply them to civilian health systems, clinical care facilities, and personal health devices...
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HC3 Sector Alert on Older Versions of OpenEMR

Feb. 2, 2023
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center published a sector alert on Jan. 31 advising healthcare organizations about vulnerabilities found on older versions of OpenEMR...
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CMS Notifies Medicare Beneficiaries of Data Breach

Dec. 15, 2022
On Dec. 14, CMS posted a press release responding to a data breach at Healthcare Management Solutions, a subcontractor of ASRC Federal Data Solutions, LLC, that may have involved...