Pharmacies Across the US Report Outages After Cyberattack

Pharmacies across the United States were suffering outages as a technology company reported that it was the target of a cyberattack.

The pharmacy area of a store in Mount Prospect, Ill., on Sept. 21, 2006. Tim Boyle/Getty Images

Pharmacies across the United States were suffering outages as a health technology company reported that it was the target of a cyberattack.

Change Healthcare, which handles patient payments and orders for pharmacies around the nation, confirmed in a statement on Thursday afternoon that it noticed a cybersecurity incident impacting its networks, according to its website.