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Phishing Could Affect 6,800 Members of Maryland Insurer

Maryland’s largest health insurer says a phishing attack may have exposed the personal information of nearly 7,000 members. News outlets report CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Friday that an employee’s email account was compromised March 12, and could have allowed access …

‘Throwing Money’ at Data Breach Victims May Not Be Best Response

Offering customers discounts in future purchases and free credit monitoring —strategies used by Target after its large-scale data breach — may raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’ sense of justice, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas. Information systems …

Hypothetically, Here’s How to Respond to a Data Breach

How an organization responds within 72 hours of a data breach can be critical. Take the case of GlobalMart, a hypothetical Boston-based international company that has had a hypothetically horrendous 2014, ricocheting from one data security crisis to another. The …