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...

April 15, 2024 - UPDATE 4/15/2024 - This article has been updated to reflect new information about the Change Healthcare cyberattack. WIRED received samples of Change Healthcare data allegedly stolen by RansomHub, and it appears to be legitimate. RansomHub claims to be holding four terabytes of stolen data and is demanding a ransom from Change...

April 10, 2024 - As of April 3, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) had advanced nearly $4.7 billion to providers grappling with the aftermath of the Change Healthcare cyberattack. Even so, physician practices across the country have faced persistent financial turmoil in the weeks since the cyberattack began. More than 77 percent of American Medical Association (AMA) survey...

April 10, 2024 - Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) notified more than 533,000 individuals of a data breach that resulted from a cyberattack. On January 25, GHC-SCW detected unauthorized access to its network and immediately isolated and secured the network. The hacker attempted to encrypt GHC-SCW’s systems, without success....