UnitedHealth Blamed ‘Nation-State’ Threat in Hack That Disrupted Pharmacy Orders

(Bloomberg) -- A cyberattack against a division of UnitedHealth Group Inc. has caused a nationwide outage of a computer network that’s used to transmit data between health-care providers and insurance companies, rendering some pharmacies unable to process prescriptions, according to the company and reports from affected organizations.

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