HealthExec April 17, 2024
The Change Healthcare data breach keeps getting worse. As previously reported, the health information exchange paid a $22 million ransom to liberate its data from cybercriminals, only to face a second blackmail for another payment. Earlier this week, some sensitive data from Change Healthcare and parent company UnitedHealth Group was leaked online.
Now, the hacker group RansomHub has begun selling data from the breach online. According to Dark Web Informer—an outlet that monitors illicit activity on the Tor network—a posting went live on April 16 advertising the sale of the stolen data.
In a screenshot of the post shared by Dark Web Informer on X/Twitter, RansomHub claims to have data from “tens of insurance companies,” including Optum, Medicare, and...