The ransomware gang claiming responsibility for the UnitedHealth Group data leak has confirmed the data for sale on the Dark Web is indeed their data on their patients.
UnitedHealth group Change Healthcare is slowly gaining ground on backlogged payments to health providers.
"A ransom was paid as part of the company’s commitment to do all it could to protect patient data from disclosure" - UnitedHealth Group
The ransomware group, BlackCat/ALPH, pulled an exit move and left with the ransom. The claim of 6TB of patient and provider data has appeared and disappeared from the Dark Web site selling portions of that data.
UnitedHealth group is preparing to offer two-years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection to affected parties after the investigation.
“Based on initial targeted data sampling to date, the company has found files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII), which could cover a substantial proportion of people in America,”
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