Cybersecurity Dive May 6, 2024
Change Healthcare was running on legacy technology, which magnified the ransomware attack’s impact and hampered recovery efforts, Andrew Witty said.
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty didn’t provide all the answers lawmakers sought in testimony last week over his handling of a ransomware attack on subsidiary Change Healthcare.
Witty recounted what led up to the AlphV ransomware group’s intrusion into Change’s IT environment on Feb. 12 and what happened after it stole data on a third of U.S. residents and deployed ransomware.
Over the span of more than four hours before two Congressional hearings, the embattled healthcare leader shared key technical details which helped illustrate why the late February attack had such a devastating impact on the healthcare industry.
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