Data Breaches

Premera and Anthem are health care providers that were attacked by a group of hackers who compromised personal data and information from organization servers. Anthem and Premera are agents of blue shield companies that operate in the USA. They provide services to government employees, general public, and none government agencies (Tim, 2015). The attack manipulated to about 11 million customer records that affected by the stolen data and information. The data and information about patients were neither exposed nor stolen. It seems that attacking troop were after data and information of individuals and a group of individuals.  

The attack is associated with a group that has close ties with China government officials. The group is said to belong to a third party organization that implemented an attack to Anthem and at the same time extended a similar attack to Premera. Analysis of tools used to identify attackers reveals that the same person implemented the action. A collection of tool signatures, domain names as well as time frame of was similar.  The IP addresses pointed to same users and directed to machines from Chinese that were linked with the government of China (Tim, 2015). 

According to the analyzed report, no individual data was exposed or stolen. Attackers were after specific intelligence data that has not yet been revealed till now. However, the government agencies and other organizations were concerned since their information was within the organization (Tim, 2015).

The scope of effect touched Federal Bureau of Intelligence, health care community and insurance agencies were involved in investigating the attack (Takei, et al., 2014).

The organization responded by installing intelligence systems that facilitated high-level security on organization operations.  The organization is sharing intelligence data and information to facilitate better implementation of security (Jordan, & Taylor, 2008). 

References

Jordan, T., & Taylor, P. (2008). A sociology of hackers. The Sociological Review, 46, 4, 757-780.

Takei, Y., Ohta, K., Kato, N., & Nemoto, Y. (2014). Detecting and tracing illegal access by using traffic pattern matching technique. Electronics and Communications in Japan (part I: Communications), 87, 1, 61-71.

Tim G. (2015). Premera, Anthem breaches probably espionage, expert says: Same group of attackers, likely Chinese, could be lurking in networks right now: Source: (networkworld.com). 

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