Zack Whittaker on Nostr: As a reminder of how we got here, I cannot stress enough the corporate negligence. ...
As a reminder of how we got here, I cannot stress enough the corporate negligence.
Change Healthcare was hacked by a ransomware gang because the company didn't enforce multi-factor authentication — a basic security feature — across employee accounts. That allowed the criminals to break in using a single set of stolen credentials and steal huge banks of U.S. medical data. For its part, U.S. insurance giant UnitedHealth, which owns Change, made $22B in profit in 2023.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/17/how-the-ransomware-attack-at-change-healthcare-went-down-a-timeline/
Change Healthcare was hacked by a ransomware gang because the company didn't enforce multi-factor authentication — a basic security feature — across employee accounts. That allowed the criminals to break in using a single set of stolen credentials and steal huge banks of U.S. medical data. For its part, U.S. insurance giant UnitedHealth, which owns Change, made $22B in profit in 2023.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/17/how-the-ransomware-attack-at-change-healthcare-went-down-a-timeline/