For TRICARE, the aftermath of last year’s massive breach incident has proved to be an ongoing nightmare. Being the largest health information breach reported since the HIPAA breach notification rule came into effect in September 2009, the TRICARE breach has repeatedly attracted aggressive legal action. Nearly 4.9 million beneficiaries were affected by the breach, and…
Most of us are familiar with the classic spy stories of intrigue, deception and espionage. Whether it was from watching a James Bond movie or reading a Tom Clancy novel, we’ve been introduced to a world of high-risk infiltration missions and crazy gadgets portrayed in these tales. These stories are exciting and for the longest…
Popular culture is filled with terrifying creatures and beings that haunt the dreams of children at night. Whether it is a ghost or demon or a villain like Freddy Krueger, there is always the common theme of a seemingly unstoppable entity that can inflict damage on whoever it wishes. In the real world of healthcare,…
Cyber threats and cyber-security are getting full attention across the world with many governments setting up aggressive cyber security mechanisms. Enterprises irrespective of the type of the industry and size of business are prone to cyber-attacks and the consequential data breaches with the healthcare industry being most affected. HIPAA breaches are getting rampant with a…
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.…
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…
The modern enterprises with their digital presence handle a variety of digital data from structured data, textual data such as reports, contracts and emails besides technical drawings, and multimedia. The most dangerous threats faced by them today are therefore the leakage of confidential data. Defined as an unauthorized transfer of sensitive data from an organization…
