Cyber Security Outage at Unitedhealth’s Change Unit Extends for Sixth Straight Day
The problems began last Wednesday after a “suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threat actor” gained access to Change Healthcare’s information technology systems, UnitedHealth said in a filing last week.
A number of pharmacy chains, including CVS Health and Walgreens, have said the outage was having knock-on effects on their businesses.
Change Healthcare is a key facilitator of electronic payments and data interchange across the U.S. healthcare system.
(Reporting by Pratik Jain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta and Sriraj Kalluvila)
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