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In April , cybersecurity firm Recorded Future tracked 44 cases of cybercriminal groups targeting health care organizations with ransomware attacks.
That's more health care victims of ransomware than in any month Recorded Future has seen in its four years of collecting that data.
It's also the second biggest month-to-month jump in incidents the company has ever tracked.
Ransomware attacks on health care targets were on the rise even before the Change Healthcare attack.
RansomHub demanded a second ransom from Change Healthcare while threatening to leak the data on its dark web site.
That second extortion threat later inexplicably disappeared from the site.
United Healthcare has declined to answer questions about that second incident.
Many ransomware hackers widely believe that Change Healthcare actually paid two ransoms.
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