Hey, if they erase our balances due, I won’t complain. :)
Wait until they shut off sewage treatment and water supplies (see how long you could go without anyone in your region with those). Or use of three or four large banks’ credit and debit cards or ATMs simultaneously.
“Statistica’s ransomware report shows that in 2022, there were approximately 493.3 million ransomware attacks, and while this is a decrease from the 625.3 million attacks that occurred in 2021, it’s still higher than all the other years in the last decade.”
“As of 2023, over 72 percent of businesses worldwide were affected by ransomware attacks.”
“Unfortunately, even though $5.3 million is an insanely high number for a demand, many companies meet the demands of cybercriminals to protect their business from further damage or destruction. There are 1.7 million ransomware attacks every day, which means there are 19 ransomware attacks occurring every second.” Mar 18, 2024
Stupid trivia: In 1993 I designed and built the datacenter for what is now Change Healthcare.
UHC is no more a monopoly than Ford or Exxon Mobil are
Bttt
What does that sentence even mean?
Why would anyone hack United Health?
Is ransom involved? Not that I know about.
Except for anti-biotic and anti-cancer drugs, everything else just mitigates symptoms. Well, maybe aspirin (for heart health) and vitamins and minerals are pro-actively helpful, but there is no shortage of aspirin or vitamins.
The number of things we have to protect these days is completely out of control.
We’ll soon go back to rolodex and file cabinets. When things were safe.
Oh and, PAPER BALLOTS.
I ran our blue cross payer for about 12 years. We paid about 6-8 billion a year. 15 seems low. At the time we did our payments in house with licensed software that was probably the best in the business. cost was about 1.5 IT per year and about 300,000 to 500,000 in license fees. Big bang for the buck and we never had any issues.
Related, from Upstate NY and the last few months....
https://www.wbng.com/2024/05/09/guthrie-lourdes-hospital-affected-by-possible-cyber-event/
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/cyberattack-fallout-ascension-and-docgo-troubles-ricochet