The modern benchmark for healthcare cyber disruption is still the 2024 Change Healthcare attack, which exposed the data of 190 million Americans and caused nationwide shutdowns of prescription processing and insurance payments. Throughout 2025, financially motivated ransomware groups copied this exact playbook: they stopped caring solely about locking systems and instead prioritized stealing massive [...]

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