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UnitedHealth CEO tells Senate all systems now have multi-factor authentication after hack

UnitedHealth Group chief executive officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response to the recent cyberattack against its subsidiary Change Healthcare. The lack of multi-factor authentication was at the center of the ransomware attack that hit Change…

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Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO

The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access the company’s systems that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication, according to the chief executive of its parent company, UnitedHealth. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty provided the written testimony ahead of a House subcommittee hearing on…

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UnitedHealth says Change hackers stole health data on ‘substantial proportion of people in America’

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group has confirmed that a ransomware attack on its health tech subsidiary Change Healthcare earlier this year resulted in a huge theft of Americans’ private healthcare data. UnitedHealth said in a statement on Monday that a ransomware gang took files containing personal data and protected health information that it says may…

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