logo

How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline

ID: a71e2218-643b-51c9-9690-4a205abb9939

STIX ID: report--a71e2218-643b-51c9-9690-4a205abb9939

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
95/100

Date Published: 2024-12-18

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Zack Whittaker

...
...

In February 2024 Change Healthcare was hit by a major ransomware attack attributed to ALPHV/BlackCat and an affiliate; the attack caused widespread outages in U.S. healthcare billing systems, led UnitedHealth to pay a reported $22 million ransom, and resulted in theft and eventual exposure of highly sensitive medical records affecting up to 190 million Americans, triggering legal, regulatory, and sector-wide disruption.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.