Feb. 06, 2015
This week 3C examines the breathtaking breach of Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurance provider. The big takeaway: perhaps as many as 80 million victims whose Social Security numbers were taken are now exposed to the worse forms of identity theft – forever. There’s more. Read on.
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By: Byron Acohido
Anthem Inc., the nation’s no. 2 health insurance company, disclosed Wednesday that hackers plundered all of its business units of personal data for tens of millions of its customers and employees. In an open letter posted online late Wednesday, Anthem president and CEO Joseph R. Swedish disclosed…
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By: Fahmida Rashid
When it comes to insider IT security threats, the biggest exposure companies face isn’t from vengeful or disgruntled employees. It’s from the inattentive ones. Some 80 percent of network data breaches are accidental, according to a recent customer survey conducted by endpoint security vendor CoSoSys…
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By: Bob Sullivan
The next time a company tells you that it wants your information, but “Don’t worry, it’s anonymized,” don’t believe it. A group of researchers from MIT proved this week that it can identify almost anyone using just four pieces of information in a supposedly anonymized database…
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By: Jaikumar Vijayan
Facebook will take online tracking and ad targeting to another level when the Seattle Seahawks square off against the New England Patriots in Sunday’s Super Bowl. The social media giant is tracking people posting status updates, comments, likes and dislikes about the game and putting…
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By: Adam Levin
“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity,” Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed in The Facebook Effect. Easy for him to say. Facebook has made a mint on data integrity—your personal information yoked to likes and dislikes sold to the highest bidder. But…
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