Pharmacy's this week been hacked?

[Texan79423]

Pharmacy IP providers down since 2.21.24. My pharmacy and all others in town say they cannot get with the insurance companies for approval on prescriptions as internet is down. I have had to pay full price for two prescriptions this week. Anyone else experiencing this??

 

[alternative]

Hacked. Even GoodRx was down. Last night GoodRx said they were back.

"UnitedHealth unit cyberattack
CNN (2/22, Goldman) reports, “Pharmacies across the United States are reporting that they are having difficulty getting prescriptions to patients because of a cyberattack on a unit of UnitedHealth.” On Thursday, “the company said in a regulatory filing...its Change Healthcare business, which processes prescriptions to insurance for tens of thousands of pharmacies nationwide, was compromised by hackers who gained access to some of its systems.” The company found out about “the cyberattack Wednesday, and, in a separate statement, said it expected the attack to last at least throughout the day Thursday.” The cyberattack blocked “some pharmacies from processing prescriptions to insurance companies to receive payment.”

The Wall Street Journal reports the American Hospital Association called on medical facilities to disconnect from Optum following the cyberattack. Change Healthcare offers prescription processing services through Optum."

 

[kbaxter60]

Interesting timing after AT&T was down a couple of days ago. They poo-pooed the cyberattack theory, but could not give a cause.
Maybe the Chicoms are mixing things up a bit?

 

[baboon]

Well when the chicoms keep drifting balloons across the air space one needs to wonder why?

 

[dsgrey]

Change Healthcare went down Tuesday night and they are a clearing house that touches 1 out of 3 people with insurance. I work on healthcare systems and it's highly likely they could be down for a month.

Fun fact, the chief information security officer for United is named...Steve Martin.

 

[Lead Belly]

Many data breaches are inside jobs. The can't legally sell the extremly valuable info on open market, but oops..... Sorrry! Here is your free year of credit monitoring.

 

[dsgrey]

This one was instigated by the ransomware group Blackcat. The FBI hacked them back in December. Blackcat vowed to no longer exclude infrastructure so they hit a healthcare clearing house which will be down for months. We'll see if Blackcat hits something like a large financial institution along the lines of Citibank.

 

[Lead Belly]

This one was instigated by the ransomware group Blackcat. The FBI hacked them back in December. Blackcat vowed to no longer exclude infrastructure so they hit a healthcare clearing house which will be down for months. We'll see if Blackcat hits something like a large financial institution along the lines of Citibank.

Blackcat ransomware had been decrypted by the feebs. They offer select sites access to the key.

Picking winners and losers.

FBI developed decryptor for BlackCat ransomware, shut sites

Crims laugh it off and resume their activity

www.theregister.com

 

[Eastexasrick]

Change Healthcare went down Tuesday night and they are a clearing house that touches 1 out of 3 people with insurance. I work on healthcare systems and it's highly likely they could be down for a month.

Fun fact, the chief information security officer for United is named...Steve Martin.

 

[Polkwright]

Interesting timing after AT&T was down a couple of days ago. They poo-pooed the cyberattack theory, but could not give a cause.
Maybe the Chicoms are mixing things up a bit?

After the fact they blamed it on a software update. Somebody's in trouuuble.....

 

[Lead Belly]

After the fact they blamed it on a software update. Somebody's in trouuuble.....

$5 credit though on that SOS lock

 

[Polkwright]

$5 credit though on that SOS lock

The truth is they didn't have to give anything. Eh, I'll take the $5. If I get it. I had the outage but I have Cricket which uses AT&T's network.

 

[dsgrey]

The truth is they didn't have to give anything. Eh, I'll take the $5. If I get it. I had the outage but I have Cricket which uses AT&T's network.

I read where ATT is ONLY giving the credit to customers on an ATT plan. I have Cricket too but we won't get a credit.

 

[vmax]

My friends son is a high end manager at Change Healthcare..he said they got hacked the SAME day that ATT said they had a software "issue"....yeah..

He said that it's a ransomware attack and they are demanding millions...Change won't pay it.

He thinks it's liable to crash the whole company..he don't know if he will have a job a month from now.

Pharmacies and providers are scrambling to go on a new system

Just wait till it is revealed that all our data was compromised...

ATT and Change were part of a big scale cyber attack on the US...
They can deny it..but I still think it is the truth

 

[striker55]

It's Trump's fault.

 

[dsgrey]

My friends son is a high end manager at Change Healthcare..he said they got hacked the SAME day that ATT said they had a software "issue"....yeah..

He said that it's a ransomware attack and they are demanding millions...Change won't pay it.

He thinks it's liable to crash the whole company..he don't know if he will have a job a month from now.

Pharmacies and providers are scrambling to go on a new system

Just wait till it is revealed that all our data was compromised...

ATT and Change were part of a big scale cyber attack on the US...
They can deny it..but I still think it is the truth

Change Healthcare had a scheduled meeting with their client executives late yesterday but I haven't heard the updates. They are being very hush about when it might be resolved (months?). I'm questioning their viability since customers are seeking alternative clearing house vendors and Change is releasing contract stipulations for it's customers. I'm sure our data has been compromised.

 

[vmax]

Things like this is exactly why I have a couple months back up supply..
Thank God I only have one prescription for mild blood pressure and it's cheap and easy to get

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Imagine that!

 

[Havok1]

My friends son is a high end manager at Change Healthcare..he said they got hacked the SAME day that ATT said they had a software "issue"....yeah..

He said that it's a ransomware attack and they are demanding millions...Change won't pay it.

He thinks it's liable to crash the whole company..he don't know if he will have a job a month from now.

Pharmacies and providers are scrambling to go on a new system

Just wait till it is revealed that all our data was compromised...

ATT and Change were part of a big scale cyber attack on the US...
They can deny it..but I still think it is the truth

Yep! The coding error excuse is something they came up with expecting that it will cause them to lose less customers than if they revealed the truth. I have to imagine that this cost them some serious money. Has anyone heard of anyone being fired for their mistake?

 

[mroper]

Change Healthcare had a scheduled meeting with their client executives late yesterday but I haven't heard the updates. They are being very hush about when it might be resolved (months?). I'm questioning their viability since customers are seeking alternative clearing house vendors and Change is releasing contract stipulations for it's customers. I'm sure our data has been compromised.

If they are are still our customer which I believe they are, the credit card info will be safe unless they are crawling through the system and detokenizing them and we would notice that.