Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care that the effects of the hack were outsize.
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.