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Lawmakers asked tough questions when UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified before the Senate Finance Committee about the Change Healthcare cyberattack. tinyurl.com/mhcxv9am

Sen. Wyden said as the hearing wrapped that UnitedHealth Group 'let the country down' both in its cybersecurity protection and response to the Change Healthcare attack. He also said that health policy, economics, and national security are clearly linked.

Sen. Bennet asks UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty how another attack like the Change Healthcare breach will be prevented. Witty: “We are clearly trying to take responsibility in this attack. We are also trying to learn from it and we want to make sure we share all of these…

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty tells senators that claim processing after the Change Healthcare cyberattack is “broadly back to normal.” Witty says, “Where we sill have lag is payment on those claims.”

Sen. Maggie Hassan urges UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty to work harder to notify those affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack on Feb. 21. “Ten weeks is way too long for millions of Americans to not know that their records may be available to criminals,” Hassan said.

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty tells senators the company is providing two years of credit monitoring and identity theft protection. Sen. Wyden says those steps are the “thoughts and prayers of data breaches.”

UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty tells senators that the company hopes to make all providers whole “in the next month or six weeks.” Hospitals, doctors and medical groups have suffered losses due to the disruption in processing claims.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty tells the Senate Finance Committee he made the call to pay the ransom in the Change Healthcare cyberattack.

In the Senate Finance Committee hearing this morning, Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticizes UnitedHealth for moving to “snap up doctors’ practices” who have been financially damaged by the Change Healthcare data breach.

When asked if UnitedHealth has had any breaches since the Change Healthcare cyberattack, CEO Andrew Witty says he will have to get back to the Senate Finance Committee. He says the company is constantly under attack and wants to be accurate in his answer.

Sen. Grassley asked UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty if the company is prepared for another cyberattack. Witty responds, “I believe we are taking every sensible precaution.”

In the Senate Finance Committee hearing this morning, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says it will take “months” to determine how many are affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack.

Sen. Ron Wyden tells UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty that the Change Healthcare cyberattack “could have been stopped with cybersecurity 101.” He points to Witty’s statement that the attack involved a system without multi-factor authentication.