?Most of the time somebody bribes an employee for a password. Not really high tech at all.”
-this. Same with the Sony ‘hack’. If you part ways with an IT security employee on not so good terms, and you don’t change all the passwords, you have only yourself to blame. Of course Anthem has been known to cut corners on these things.. lost over 100k client records in both 2006 and 2008. then their security was deemed to be so terrible they were fined 1.7mil. Good places to cut costs - Security isn’t one of them.
When I had to fire our key IT person, I waited 2 weeks before I actually fired him so that we could secure all our systems and have new passwords ready to go in minutes. The whole episode still gives me a queasy feeling. Fortunately there were no ramifications though someone did report that he made an effort to “borrow” their new password!