FEBRUARY 16-22, 2015

Anthem Inc. invests a lot in data security, but the health insurance giant still left itself vulnerable on key fronts leading up to the recent theft of 80 million consumer records. IBJ’s J.K. Wall explains how hackers exploited the cracks. Also in this issue, Scott Olson takes the measure of Circle Centre mall on its 20th anniversary and finds room for improvement. And in A&E Etc., Lou Harry has a ho-hum experience at Giordano’s.

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Anthem’s IT system had cracks before hack

February 12, 2015 |

Anthem Inc. spends $50 million a year and employs 200 people to keep its information technology secure. Yet the Indianapolis-based health insurance giant still left itself vulnerable to hackers on key fronts leading up to the theft of 80 million consumer records.

As Circle Centre turns 20, declining performance, anchor woes spur worry

February 12, 2015 |

Sales per square foot are down, the building itself is aging, and persuading the lone anchor, Carson Pirie Scott, to stay another three years required generous incentives.

Visit Indy scoring medical confabs after years of courting sector

February 12, 2015 |

Visit Indy in the last six months has signed deals for four sizable medical/pharmaceutical-related conventions—hard-earned wins for a city that for years has aimed to be a biomedical hub that attracts big players for annual gatherings.

How Eli Lilly CEO Lechleiter pulled company out of long slide

February 12, 2015 |

After weathering a barrage of patent expirations, the pharmaceutical giant has restocked its pipeline and is positioned to grow.

As Comcast prepares to exit Indy, questions abound

February 12, 2015 |

Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is looking to expand with its proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable. But customers in central Indiana won’t come along for the ride. To ease antitrust concerns, Comcast plans to hand 2.5 million customers to a new spinoff called GreatLand Connections.

Zionsville shop’s niche draws orders from antiquers worldwide

February 12, 2015 |

In July, Tiffany Turner and her husband, Steve Young, bought Kennedy Hardware, a three-decade-old enterprise that’s a superstar in its sales niche—supplying highly specialized bits of hardware for rehabilitating antique furniture.

Clowes chief’s retirement clears path for realignment

February 12, 2015 |

Executive Director Elise J. Kushigian replacement will oversee not just the 2,200-seat performing arts landmark, but three additional theaters as well.

Growing Bluebridge lands new investment, Dorsey’s attention

February 12, 2015 |

Mobile-app developer Bluebridge Digital is moving to bigger offices, adding employees, and including ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey as an investor.

Solar industry plots cooperative strategy

February 11, 2015 |

Imagine seeing the price of gas drop 50 percent, then finding out you couldn’t take advantage because of a law that excluded drivers who lease their vehicles or whose fuel tank is on the wrong side.

EDITORIAL: Welcome new sharing services, keep the protection

February 12, 2015 |

The genie of service businesses consumers can connect with on their smartphones—like ride-sharing and room-sharing—can’t be put back in the bottle. Particularly popular with millennials, such services are here to stay. Indiana would be wise to create a welcome business climate for them, while protecting the safety of local residents. Legislation wending its way through the General Assembly looks on track to maintain that balance.

MAURER: Purdue is finding way to stop brain drain

February 12, 2015 |

Numerous programs are succeeding in connecting graduates to Indiana and keeping them here.

RUSTHOVEN: Why won’t Obama say the obvious?

February 12, 2015 |

Selecting a kosher grocery to target was random? Killing people the killer targeted “because they were Jewish” was random?

CATE: Takeaways from the Anthem breach

February 12, 2015 |

There are more reasons to pay attention to the Anthem breach than just its size. There are practical lessons for us all.

FEIGENBAUM: Lawmakers belatedly turn attention to gambling

February 12, 2015 |

After an interim study committee—stacked with lawmakers favorable to gambling interests—recommended a series of items to help Indiana’s casinos and racinos compete with expanded gambling options in Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, it took until Feb. 12 for the principal bill to be heard in a House committee.

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