“The affiliate group went public after accusing the main ALPHV/BlackCat gang of swindling the contract hackers out of $22 million in ransom that Change Healthcare allegedly paid to prevent the mass leak of patient records.”
Change Healthcare processes around one in three U.S. patient medical records, and the attack stalled prescriptions and surgical authorizations for weeks. The State Department now offers up to $10 million for anyone tied to ALPHV/BlackCat. The ransom was more than double the bounty, and the affiliates claim they still hold the data. UnitedHealth has not said whether patient data was stolen.