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The company posted a short announcement on its status update website, saying a problem has been identified.
Some applications are currently unavailable, the company said.
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Optum is currently triaging the issue and will provide further updates as they are available.
Change Healthcare merged with Optum two years ago, in a $7.8 billion deal.
BlackCat’s rugpull
The disruption affected more than just Change.
Local Michigan media, for example, reported that pharmacies were experiencing outages as a result of the attack.
Earlier this week,BleepingComputersaid the outage was still impacting operations across the U.S. healthcare industry.
In the aftermath of the attack, the notoriousransomwareoperator BlackCat abruptly shut down all operations and called it quits.
BlackCat, instead of paying the affiliate their share, allegedly took the money and ran.
The affiliate is now apparently stuck with terabytes of sensitive Change Healthcare information.
