Change Healthcare Grinds Through Massive Breach Probe
Two months on, parent company UnitedHealth Group faces long slog to identify the ‘substantial proportion’ of people whose personal data was compromised
Read this article in The Wall Street Journal Cybersecurity Pro
https://www.wsj.com/articles/change-healthcare-grinds-through-massive-breach-probe-22fa3102
By Kim S. Nash and Catherine Stupp
April 25, 2024, 1:25 pm ET|WSJ PRO
Pulled quote from Health-ISAC chief security officer Errol Weiss:
Although UnitedHealth has offered to take on notification duties for providers and customers, hospitals and others worry they will have to do at least some of that expensive chore themselves, said Errol Weiss, chief security officer at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit that facilitates healthcare companies in exchanging information about cyber threats.
“They’re certainly concerned about who is going to be responsible for breach notification and ultimately making things right with all of the impacted individuals,” he said.
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