UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Wednesday blamed outdated technology for a hack that likely exposed the health care information of millions of people and crippled claims processing for thousands of providers for several weeks.
Members of the U.S. military have had their data stolen in the recent cyberattack on UnitedHealth's technology unit that impacted almost all patients and providers, CEO Andrew Witty told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
UnitedHealth Group’s dominance in the U.S. healthcare industry was in the spotlight on Capitol Hill Wednesday as its CEO faced two Congressional hearings
Congress hauled UnitedHealth Group's CEO to the Hill on Wednesday seeking more clarity about the cyberattack at subsidiary Change Healthcare that threw much of the health care system into turmoil. What they got was an apology and some notable non-answers.
A hugely disruptive cyberattack in February exposed clear technology flaws at a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, lawmakers said Wednesday, and raised difficult questions about whether the Minnetonka-based health care giant has just gotten too big.
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill lawmakers from both parties on Wednesday grilled UnitedHealth Group’s CEO over the largest-ever cyberattack on the U.S. health care industry, which has crippled payments to providers and pharmacies and left millions of patients clueless about whether their information is now on the dark web.
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty told a congressional committee Wednesday that hackers breached a subsidiary of his company, the country’s largest health insurer, by stealing a password and gaining access through a system that lacked multifactor authentication.
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty apologized for the cyber-attack on their subsidiary and assured lawmakers they are working to address this. “We will not rest, I will not rest, until we fix this,” Witty said.
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty issued an apology while testifying before a House committee Wednesday about the cyberattack against subsidiary Change Healthcare that paralyzed insurance payments to hospitals,
Click to print (Opens in new window) The Change Healthcare cyberattack that disrupted health care systems nationwide earlier this year started when hackers entered a server that lacked a basic form of security: multifactor authentication.
UnitedHealth is one of the biggest companies in the United States, with a market capitalization of $445 billion and annual revenue of $372 billion. Senators said during the hearin
UnitedHealth Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told lawmakers his company is still trying to determine why its computer systems were left vulnerable to hackers who perpetrated a devastating cyberattack.
UnitedHealth Group Chief Executive Officer Andrew Witty told senators on Wednesday that the company has now enabled multi-factor authentication on all the company’s systems exposed to the internet in response to the recent cyberattack against its subsidiary Change Healthcare.
Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty,
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty took fire from both sides of the aisle Wednesday during his testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of his company.