May 1, 2024 - The Rubrik Zero Labs research unit found that the average healthcare organization possesses upwards of 42 million sensitive data records, 50% more than the global average of 28 million. Given this figure, Rubrik deduced that ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations can have significant negative impacts on operations and data security and...

May 1, 2024 - UPDATE 5/1/2024 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the Change Healthcare cyberattack. In a written testimony published in advance of Wednesday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty shed light on his decision to pay the ransom to cyber threat actors and provided...

April 30, 2024 - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized updates to its Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) with the goal of clarifying the rule’s applicability to health apps and other technologies that fall outside HIPAA’s purview. The FTC issued the HBNR more than a decade ago, when health apps were not as embedded into the US healthcare...

April 29, 2024 - In a recent press release, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) confirmed that data was compromised during the Change Healthcare cyberattack. While UHG has yet to complete its data review, its initial investigation suggests that the breach “could cover a substantial proportion of people in America.” In the same press release, UHG offered to make...