Anthem

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2019
DoJ indicted a member of China-based hacking group behind Anthem hack

US DoJ indicted a member of sophisticated China-based hacking group for series of computer intrusions. The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2017
Anthem agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach

Anthem, the largest US healthcare insurance company, has agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach. Anthem, the largest US healthcare insurance company, has agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by the 2015 data breach. The attack on Anthem exposed 78.8 million records and according […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2015
IRS breached, hackers access data of more 100,000 taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was breached by hackers that “used an online service provided by the agency” to access data for more than 100,000 taxpayers. According to the Associated Press, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) suffered a data breach, hackers “used an online service provided by the agency” to access data for more than 100,000 taxpayers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015
Health records are the new goldmine for hackers

According to Top CSO news website, security experts predict that “Health records are worth more and easier to get than credit card data” The rise in health data breach headlines, may not necessarily suggest an increase in actual data breaches. It’s possible that organizations are just getting better at discovering that they’ve been breached, so […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2015
US health insurer Premera Hacked, 11 Million customers affected

US health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced its network had been hacked, potentially exposing data from 11 million individuals. A few weeks after the disclosure of the data breach suffered by from Anthem Blue Cross, which exposed 80 million customer records, another US health insurer was victim of a major attack that is affecting 11 Million customers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2015
Anthem Breach: a Slow and Silent Attack

Experts at Check Point security firm analyzed the recent data breach suffered by Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer. The attack on Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., which exposed identifiable personal data of tens of millions of people, was probably not a smash-and-grab raid but instead a sustained, low-key siphoning information over […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2015
Cybercrime exploits Anthem data breach in Phishing campaigns

Following the Anthem data breach, cyber criminals launched phishing campaigns to harvest customers’ personal information and credentials. A few hours after disclosure of the news of the data breach suffered by the nation’s second largest health insurer Anthem cyber criminals started sending phishing emails related to the cyber attacks. The Anthem incident could potentially impact millions […]