Data breaches

Five years after hackers accessed the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, parties to a consolidated class action lawsuit have reached one of the largest healthcare data breach settlements.

Last year was a significant one for health plans when it came to data breaches and breach settlements.

A Chinese citizen was indicted for aiding a massive 2015 computer hack at health insurer Anthem, one of the biggest thefts of consumer medical data in U.S. history.

Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service has had a data breach after an unauthorized user accessed the online provider portal with the intent of fraudulently rerouting a provider financial transaction.

Bridger Insurance says the incident, reported in Sept. 2018, involved some access of insurance application data.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reporting unauthorized access to consumer data in systems that support federal insurance exchanges.

The OCR has hit the health insurer with the fine as part of a settlement from its massive January 2015 breach.

Hackers accessed information systems at Toyota Industries North America, compromising personal and protected health information.

Log-in attempts continued on 2 sites for two days in early June and likely came from foreign sources.

Most organizations believe the addition of eye scans and other advanced authentication secure their data better than the use of passwords alone.

Despite the massive increase in the volume of cyberthreats over the last two years, defense strategies are working better, according to a report from ThreatMetrix.

As the number of connected devices increases, so will the vulnerabilities that they are laced with, not to mention the potential impact these could have if exploited.

Despite advances in machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence, cyber attackers are learning how to work around them, according to McAfee.

The major attacks included WannaCry, ExPetr, and BadRabbit, which all used exploits designed to compromise corporate networks.

Perhaps of greatest concern, a new study showed that uncertainty is highest among IT security experts, who should therefore be more familiar with the issue.

Calls for less reliance on credit bureaus and Social Security numbers for verification are leading many to envision a future of identity on a distributed ledger.

Equifax's data breach may be the most serious, given that it covered 143 million consumers and involved reams of confidential information, but it wasn't the largest. Following are the biggest to date.

Carriers are wise to shore up security governance, data protection and incident response strategies, says Novarica's Tom Benton.

This information is exactly what is relied on to verify someone’s identity. It is simply a gold mine for potential identity thieves.

The number of incidents has risen rapidly in recent years, but organizations are learning from their mistakes and making improvements.