AG – AG Nessel and DIFS Director Fox Urge Michiganders Impacted by Wolverine Solutions Group Data Breach to Take Extra Precautions
The personal information and medical data of more than 600,000 people in Michigan may have been compromised in a cyberattack on Wolverine Solutions Group (WSG), a healthcare company that partners with health plans and hospital systems. This includes names, addresses, social security numbers and medical information of customers of several Michigan healthcare companies, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Health Alliance Plan and McLaren Health Care, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Monday…
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Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi, commented, “It’s not surprising to see large scale attack on multiple insurers be so successful: cyber criminals can use the power of encryption to hide and escape detection.” He added, “Machine identities, like TLS certificates, establish what is good or bad on networks and establish private communications. Experts forecast at least 70% of network attacks will use the power of machine identities to encrypt and hide breaches. Unfortunately, most security teams are still catching up to these new threats. Many organizations don’t have the intelligence and automation to properly protect machine identities, so their existing threat protection leaves incoming and outgoing encrypted traffic vulnerable.”
Hugh Taylor
Hugh Taylor is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM). In addition to editing Journal of Cyber Policy, he writes about cybersecurity, compliance and enterprise technology for such clients as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, HPE, Oracle, Google and Advanced Micro Devices. Prior to launching his freelance writing career, he served in executive roles at Microsoft, IBM and several venture-backed technology startups.