It is common, if not automatic, for companies that have their information systems breached to offer credit monitoring services, and this includes medical record breaches. Consumers can also pay companies like Lifelock to provide the same services. The question is do they work and the answer is, for the most part, not really. Brian Krebs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Columbia Casualty paid Cottage Health System a little over $4 million after a breach in December 2013. Columbia wants their $4 million back, plus attorney’s fees and expenses because, they say, Cottage “did not follow minimum required practices for protecting information and did not truthfully attest to its security controls” (see article). Here is more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]News sources around the country are reporting that the Office Of Personnel Management was breached and it likely was breached for a long time. The OPM provides HR services for executive branch agencies and provides services like doing security background checks for the DoD and others. The OPM is releasing very few details at this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Beacon Health System, the result of a merger of two hospitals in South Bend Indiana announced that their email system was breached and hackers had access to emails between November 2013 and Jan 26, 2015 – about 15 months. While allowing the hackers to roam through your system for 15 months seems long, it, unfortunately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DC based Blue Cross affiliate CareFirst announced last week that, like other Blues, they had been breached. Information on 1.1 million customers was compromised. The good news is that this breach did not include health information or credit card numbers. CareFirst is the 3rd Blue Cross affiliate to announce they have been hacked recently (the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mastercard and Target concocted an agreement where Target would pay a fine of $19 million to settle all of the bank’s claims against Target as a result of the 2013-14 breach. This would be separate from an agreement with Visa. Mastercard was not able to get enough banks to agree to it, so the lawsuits […]
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