Representatives from Indianapolis-base health insurer Anthem Inc. have canceled plans to speak publicly this week at Ball State University, where some employees have had their identities stolen.
A local senior home health specialist said he believes the identity thefts are connected to the recent cyberattack on Indianapolis-based health care insurer Anthem Inc., which covers Ball State employees.
Carmel-based technology firm Emerging Threats Pro LLC has reached an agreement to be acquired by Sunnyvale, California-based Proofpoint Inc., the companies announced Monday morning.
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.
After a huge data breach, Anthem is warning about “phishing” messages that are targeting people it insures or has insured in the past.
At least one Indianapolis law firm already is preparing a lawsuit against Anthem Inc., after hackers stole personal information on as many as 80 million customers. The breach is certain to spur much more litigation.
New details on a cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase add to increasing doubts over the security of consumer data kept by lenders, retailers and others. The breach compromised customer information pertaining to roughly 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
Data including names, addresses and Social Security numbers of those who attended IU from 2011 to 2014 was unsecured for more than 11 months because protections weren’t working correctly.
The school says the exposed information includes birthdates, social security numbers and bank account information of about 163,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Companies around Indianapolis—especially small ones without their own IT teams—are still trying to determine how or even if they were affected by the confounding Internet security gap.
A confounding computer bug called "Heartbleed" is causing big security headaches across the Internet as websites scramble to fix the problem and Web surfers wonder whether they should change their passwords
Corporate executives, shaken by fears of hackers, are enlisting Rook Security and an explosion of companies like it to monitor and chase cyber criminals across borders and recover stolen intellectual property.
While some Americans question the National Security Agency’s habit of amassing citizens’ phone records, former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith urges city governments to dive into “big data.”
If your privacy settings aren’t carefully controlled, you’re not only potentially exposing yourself, but also your friends.
Evangelical Baptist Missions Inc. says its former IT vendor is holding its website hostage—potentially hampering the safety of people working abroad.
I’m wary of the “send” button. I’ve sent thousands of e-mails, and a fair number of them proved
to be problems later on.
Every year, as the first of April rolls around, there are people—and companies—everywhere scheming to take
advantage of the gullible.
