Matthew Renda reports:
A federal judge denied Anthem’s request for access to computers of former customers who accuse the insurance giant of failing to protect their personal information in an enormous data breach last year.
Anthem filed a motion seeking permission to access plaintiffs’ computers, smartphones and tablets to image and copy them to determine whether the data breach or embedded malware was responsible for the potential harm that could include identity theft and tax problems.
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Why do they need access to the phones, tablets, computers of the customers? That is ridiculous.
Why can’t people just own up and say, “There was a hack. We recognize we could have done more and apologize for disruption, chaos, and so forth”?
I guess corporate executives of these companies would rather find blame than just own up
They’re being sued and have a right – and need – to defend themselves by questioning whether any reported fraud was really due to their hack or from some other cause.