Cyber attack on healthcare platform in the USA
A devastating cyber attack recently occurred on the US payment service Change Healthcare, which is part of the UnitedHealth Group. Many healthcare organizations have been cut off from the platform they rely on for patient claims submission and payment. While the outage does not appear to affect systems that provide direct, critical care to patients, it did expose a vulnerability that affects the entire U.S. healthcare system. The cyberattack on Change Healthcare reveals the risk of devastating ripple effects and widespread vulnerabilities across the healthcare industry. This attack shows the scope of…
