Search the internet for news about security breaches in heal

Search the internet for news about security breaches in healthcare or other industries in the past three years.

Give a summary of one incident. Identify the principal threat in the case and what healthcare information managers could have done to minimize the threat.

Solution

In January 2015, big disaster was observed in healthcare organization which was recorded as one of the biggest disaster. Anthem health insurance organization said that about 78 million patient’s data was stolen. All the information regarding the patient like their name, address, phone numbers etc. This is a major cyber attack which results in the data breaches. The main principle of this threat was because of the lack of security for their information. This information should be secured very secretly but due to some of the hackers this information was stolen by the cyber hackers.

To minimize these threat managers secured the patient information in the form of records. They have changed the all the software’s and changed the passwords. They failed a case regarding this disaster and sent mails to the patients for the inconvenience regarding the disaster. To overcome this kind of threats they appointed technically skilled security officers.