Change Ransomware Attack: UnitedHealth Profits from a Crisis it Created

Change Ransomware Incident: Details so far

The change Ransomware attack

• Last week, an Oregon medical practice suffered a serious Ransomware attack called Change Ransomware.
• Due to the attack, the medical practice was left with an empty bank account.
• The only way out was to sell the practice to United Health. 

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• UnitedHealth applied for an emergency exemption to speed up its acquisition of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon. 
• The practice was on the verge of shutting down if the merger wasn’t approved immediately.
• The reason for this immediate merger is unclear, however, inside sources disclosed that it’s the same issue affecting other health providers in the U.S.- the intentional weeks-long outage of United Health’s Change Healthcare clearing and claims processing systems.
• The outage compromised the flow of information essential for healthcare providers to get paid.