Viewpoint: A Favorable Prognosis—Healthcare at the Forefront of Cyber Risk April 17, 2025 By Stephanie Snyder Frenier Healthcare organizations continue to find themselves at the forefront of cyber risk. Exposures such as IT supply chain dependencies, website...
Hospitals Seen as Potential Growth Area for Litigation Financing October 2, 2024 By Dorothy Ma and Emily R. Siegel The litigation-financing industry could see new demand from an increase in health care lawsuits, according to Christopher Bogart, chief executive...
Hospital Operator Ascension Warns of Suspected Cyberattack; Operations Disrupted May 9, 2024 Hospital operator Ascension reported disruptions to its clinical operations on Wednesday due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and advised business...
Hack That Paralyzed US Health Care Turns Up Scrutiny on Insurer April 30, 2024 By John Tozzi, Riley Griffin and Jordan Robertson When a cyberattack on Change Healthcare paralyzed much of the US health-care system, some lawmakers saw it as proof its...
Hackers Claim to Have UnitedHealth’s Stolen Data – But Is It a Bluff? April 10, 2024 By Raphael Satter A freshly formed hacking gang claims to have won access to a massive stash of data stolen from UnitedHealth Group,...
UnitedHealth Hackers Say They Stole ‘Millions’ of Records, Then Delete Statement February 29, 2024 By Raphael Satter In a message posted to, and then quickly deleted from their darknet site, the hackers blamed for striking the UnitedHealth...
Change Healthcare Cyberattack Is Still Disrupting Pharmacies, Other Providers February 28, 2024 By Sana Pashankar and John Tozzi A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for...
UnitedHealth Blamed ‘Nation-State’ Threat in Hack That Disrupted Pharmacy Orders February 23, 2024 By Jordan Robertson, John Tozzi and Sana Pashankar A cyberattack against a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has caused a nationwide outage of a computer network that’s used...
Attacks at Medical Centers Show Why Health Care Is One of the Most Violent Fields August 9, 2023 By Rebecca Boone Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in the maternity ward, and nurses...
Hospital Cyberattacks Surge, Risking Struggling Bottom Lines June 26, 2023 By Lauren Coleman-Lochner Cyberattacks on US hospitals are on the rise, adding a layer of financial pressure onto an industry still struggling to...