Premera Blue Cross, a health plan in the Pacific Northwest, is about to get on the Wall of Shame as soon as HHS confirms details of Premera hacking incident where reportedly a cyber-attack exposed personal information of 11 million individuals, the second largest breach on the federal tally. The initial attack occurred on May 5, 2014…
The health insurer Anthem Inc., which manages Blue Cross plans across a dozen states, recently announced that a hacking incident has compromised a database containing personal information of nearly 80 million individuals worldwide. Anthem believes that the unencrypted compromised information could include current and former members? and employees? names, birthdates, medical IDs/Social Security Numbers, Street…
The news of massive data breach at Anthem Inc., acts as a warning signal for enterprises across the globe irrespective of the industry type. The reports showcase that the Health Insurer, Anthem Inc., suffered this massive data breach as hackers gained access to their corporate data base. For this globally widespread enterprise with a client…
The increasing number of data breaches from cyber criminals across various enterprises have brought in large scale loss of personal information besides financial losses and brand erosion. Even as technological growth helped governments across nations improve their communication and governance levels multi-fold, the cyber security breaches have pressurized them to work on security policy changes.…
A new found vulnerability known as GHOST (CVE-2015-0235) affects many systems built on Linux starting with glibc-2.2 as well as Debian 7 (wheezy), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7, CentOS 6 & 7 and Ubuntu 12.04, and allows attackers to remotely take control of an entire system without having any prior knowledge of system credentials. The…
With the healthcare industry moving towards digitalization, the electronic health records even in protected formats are becoming increasingly attractive to the criminals of the cyber world. Not a day goes by without news articles published about hospitals or medical practitioners paying millions of dollars as penalties due to public exposure of the protected health information.…
For the technology dependent business world, the use of digital data has not only enabled ease of data transfers, storage and data accessibility from any location and device, but has also made them vulnerable to data breaches. Following the legal dispute between Texas Health and Human services Commission and its former contractor Xerox, the state…
Technological innovations over the years has paved the way for physicians and healthcare professionals to adopt mobile technology in their healthcare practices. While this has brought in positive impacts on patient care, organizational efficiency and work flow, healthcare data breaches have unfortunately become a major issue faced by large number of healthcare providers. Even as…
The aggressively competitive environment and customer demands challenges business world to adopt every new technology to be in tune with the changing technology scenario. However, simply adopting new technologies will not really give enterprises a competitive advantage. With businesses working through a digital and networked world, the emerging technologies also open up new areas of…
Yet another major data breach by leaving a folder unsecured in the infinitely connected networked world. The recent federal healthcare data breach tally reported a data breach that affected more than 307,000 patient records from an unsecured folder. This case of unsecured folder of Touchstone Medical Imaging, a provider for diagnostic imaging services leading to…
