US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack

U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare confirmed a cyberattack on its systems, causing a network interruption. The company disconnected its systems to prevent further impact once it became aware of the threat. The disruption is expected to last at least through the day. The specific nature of the cybersecurity incident was not disclosed. Local pharmacies are experiencing outages due to the cyberattack. Scheurer Health, a healthcare provider in Michigan, cannot currently process prescriptions through patients’ insurance, citing the nationwide outage from Change Healthcare ¹.