April 18, 2024 - UPDATE 4/18/2024 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the Change Healthcare cyberattack. UHG's review of data impacted by the cyberattack is still underway, but its latest update confirms that some health data was compromised. "At this time, we know that the data had some quantity of personal health information...

April 17, 2024 - Lawmakers had many questions for UnitedHealth Group (UHG), the parent of Change Healthcare, at a March 16 House subcommittee hearing about the cyberattack that halted claims payments and disrupted operations across the US healthcare sector. However, no UHG representatives were present at the hearing, leaving many questions unanswered and sparking...

April 17, 2024 - Under a proposed order from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), online mental healthcare platform Cerebral will be restricted from disclosing consumers’ personal health information to third parties for advertising purposes and from misrepresenting its privacy and data security practices. Cerebral will also be required to provide customers...

April 16, 2024 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Monument, an alcohol addiction treatment service, from disclosing its users’ personal health data to third-party advertisers, following allegations that Monument improperly shared health data with companies such as Meta and Google without consumer consent. As previously reported, Monument disclosed a...