Hospitals, pharmacies, and health care providers are facing delays in insurance processing due to a cyberattack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare subsidiary. The attack, believed to be orchestrated by a nation-state, has led to a system outage and caught the attention of federal law enforcement agencies. UnitedHealth has hired security experts, informed customers and government agencies, and taken down its payment systems. Executives from UnitedHealth, hospitals, and other health care companies are set to meet with law enforcement agencies to discuss the situation. The severity of the attack became more apparent after UnitedHealth disclosed the involvement of a suspected nation-state.
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Cyberattack on UnitedHealth subsidiary cripples pharmacies, hospitals
