US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers
The U.S. government said it is extending its reward seeking information
on key leadership of the ALPHV/BlackCat cybercrime gang to its affiliate members
The Russia-based ALPHV/BlackCat is a ransomware-as-a-service operation, which recruits affiliates
The State Department blamed the prolific ransomware group for targeting U.S. critical infrastructure
ALPHV/BlackCat gang took credit for a cyberattack and weeks-long outage at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare
The cyberattack knocked out much of the U.S. healthcare system’s access to patient records and billing information
The affiliate group went public after accusing the main ALPHV/BlackCat gang of swindling the contract
hackers out of $22 million in ransom that Change Healthcare allegedly paid to prevent the mass leak of patient records.
the affiliate group claimed to still have access to a huge amount of stolen sensitive patient data.
S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, has not yet confirmed if any patient data was stolen.
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