Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
Anthem says hackers had access to customer data back to 2004
Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
AU: 5,000 University of Sydney students notified that hack exposed their details (Updated)
Tim Asimakis reports: Thousands of students were today contacted by Duncan Ivison, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and informed that, due to an an information security breach, their personal information could now be in the hands of hackers. According to the email, the University’s Information Security Team identified that the ORSEE…
Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…
PA: South Western school officials investigate security breach
Updating the breach report involving South Western High School in Pennsylvania: The Evening Sun now reports that the school board met last night in closed session to discuss the breach, which appears to have involved two high school students. All the superintendent would say is that they were probably just trying to get attention. If…
Anthem offers free identity-theft protection after breach
Bill Berkrot and Karen Freifield report: Anthem Inc. said on Wednesday its millions of customers can sign up for free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection services this week following a massive cyber attack involving stolen U.S. Social Security numbers, birth dates and sensitive health information. “Consumers will be able to sign up for these services,…