Current Event: IST 755 Strategic Management of Information Resources
Syracuse University
Suhas Rajaram
Prof. Raed M. Sharif
[BIGGEST HEALTHCARE BREACH: ANTHEM]
The Issue & its Importance:
In a statement released on 6th February, 2015, Anthem Inc, the largest for profit managed healthcare company in the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association released a statement that they were target of very sophisticated external cyber-attack. Apparently attackers gained unauthorized access to Anthem’s IT system and have obtained personal information of their current and former members such as their names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data. Highly confidential information of as many as 80 million individuals was compromised in what is the largest known breach of a healthcare company. According to Bloomberg experts, Anthem first detected unusual activity inside its network on Jan. 27, 2015 and verified the intrusion on Jan. 29, 2015. The company has yet to disclose when the initial intrusion began. Anthem CIO, Thomas Miller informed a leading journal that “the attack was first noticed when an administrator found that his database identifier code was being used to run database queries that he hadn 't launched. He says the company 's investigators found that the data had been exfiltrated to a popular online storage site”. According to the study which was conducted by a firm, U.S. and
What: 43 million records which include usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses and also ad-related data of users were hacked
In 2013, target corporation experienced a serious data breach where its security, as well as the payment system,was breached. The security breach was so intense in which case; it compromised over 40 million credit as well as debit card numbers. Furthermore, 70 million phone numbers, addresses, and other personal information was affected(Krebs, 2014).The attack was made without the knowledge of Target Corp. until mid-December when the department of defense notified the company that its system was being attacked. One problem that came out clear, in this case, was the fact that Target Corp. had been notified of the attack
What do Premara Blue Cross, Anthem, Chick-fil-A, Sony, USPS, MCX, Staples, Kmart, Dairy Queen, SuperValue, Jimmie John's, Viator, Home Depot, PF Chang's, Community Health Systems, and JP Morgan all have in common? Each of these companies were hacked during 2014-2015. Sadly, this is just a short list showing the breadth of industries and size of operations that are vulnerable. According to Time Magazine in March, 2015, "You're not just imagining it: Lately, a new data breach has been reported almost every week."
A root-cause analysis of the security breach revealed multi-factorial issues at the technical, individual, group, and organizational levels. At the technical level, the applications and web-tools were initially tested and evaluated in an ideal environments that was not equivalent to the clinical practice
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seem to hack into a health care database, as the database is protected by a number of
The Target data breach remains one of the most notable breaches in history, it was the first time a CEO of a major corporation was fired due to a security event. The breach received an enormous amount of attention, it caused corporations and individuals to change the way they think about information security and data protection. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2013 hackers gained access to 40 million customer credit cards and personal data of 70 million Target customers. The intruders slipped in by using stolen credentials and from there gained access to vulnerable servers on Targets network to launch their attack and steal sensitive customer data from the POS cash registers. All this occurred without a response from Targets security operations center, even though security systems notified them of suspicious activity. The data was then sold on the black market for an estimated $53 million dollars. However, the cost to Target, creditors, and banks exceeded half of a billion dollars. This report will review how the infiltration occurred, what allowed the breach to occur including Targets response, and finally who was impacted by the security event.
So what should Paul, the CEO, do? First, he had better get off that sofa and give up the vain hope that IT can restore the system and get the hospital running again. Paul should also be in high communication mode with all of his constituents. He should understand that in today’s networked environment there are absolutely no secrets. Any IT breach forces an organization to ask, How much should we disclose about this threat? In
In February of 2015 the health insurance company Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reported to the public that “tens of millions” of records with protected health information, including but not limited to: social security numbers, birthdays, full names, addresses. The Wall Street Journal has even gone so far as to say this might have been the single largest healthcare breach to ever have occurred. (Wilde Mathews, 2015).
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The potential of violations can come from numerous sources (Lawrence & Weber, 2011) (Consumer Information). Recently Equifax had a data breach of their customer’s personal information. The hackers accessed the names, social security numbers, birthdates, and addresses of 142 million American consumers (Consumer Information). This is frightening and happens more often that we think. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers executive, ”Cybercrime has emerged as a formidable threat. Over the years millions have fallen victim to theses attacks. In a survey of 583 U.S. companies, 90 percent said that hackers breached their company’s computers over the last twelve months (Lawrence & Weber, 2011). Cyber crimes occur when hackers attempt to damage or destroy a computer network or system of company’s data. Criminals will use one of the most harmful systems around. This system is called a zombie. A zombie is
A good example of this is the attack that recently hit Metropolitan Urology Group in Milwaukee, Urology Austin and ABCD Children's Pediatrics in San Antonio. This attack led to the need for the three providers to notify 352,744 patients that their personal data might have been exposed. In addition, the providers are now paying for identity theft resolution services and/or credit monitoring for 12 months.
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