Information security analytics

A federal judge in California has given final approval to a $115 million settlement involving health insurer Anthem over its 2015 data breach. The settlement is the largest ever recorded for a class-action lawsuit filed over a data breach. But most victims will receive no money, The BankInfoSecurity reports.

TechnipFMC is suing rival McDermott International and its new chief operating officer for the alleged theft of trade secrets that Samik Mukherjee brought with him when he switched companies, the website Chron.com reports.

Messengers and mobile apps have become essential tools for information exchange, communication, and entertainment. However, you should always be careful as this seemingly easy data exchange can lead to serious problems. This is a digest of data leaks through these channels that occurred in the summer of 2018, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Development engineer Gangyi Chen stole trade secrets from a San Jose technology company and brought them to a Chinese firm, according to a Silicon Valley jury that ordered the payment of $66 million in damages to his former employer, The SiliconValley writes.

A parenting advice site has been fined £140,000 after it was accused of illegally collecting data and selling it on for use by the Labour Party, which used it to profile new mums, The BBC reports. Emma's Diary gathered data on more than a million people, according to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which issued the fine. Labour used the information in the run up to the 2017 General Election.

InfoWatch Analytical Center has prepared a digest of data leaks from healthcare and pharma organizations, this time focusing on intentional incidents involving employees. The significant share of leaks from hospitals and drugstores result from unauthorized access to confidential information, with employees viewing patients’ details either out of curiosity, or for personal gain.

Ten million people were affected by Dixons Carphone's data breach last year, the firm admitted today - far more than the 1.2 million it initially reported last month, IT PRO writes.

This is a digest of high-profile leaks that have hit manufacturing enterprises since the beginning of summer 2018, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

The U.S. healthcare system – one of the most developed in the world – still regularly suffers information leaks despite the efforts of the government and professional community. Over the last three years alone, the amount of fines for information security violations here approached $50 million. According to InfoWatch Analytical Center, the U.S. accounted for over 70% of all medical data leaks worldwide in 2017. This is a digest of five largest fines for confidential information leaks from U.S. healthcare institutions.

The UpGuard Cyber Risk team disclosed that sensitive documents for over a hundred manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics. Among the companies with data exposed in the incident are divisions of VW, Chrysler, Ford, Toyota, GM, Tesla and ThyssenKrupp.