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Join the Cybersecurity and Incident Response Group on LinkedInAnthem to pay nearly $40 million to settle data breach probe by U.S. states | Reuters
Anthem Inc said on Wednesday it would pay $39.5 million as part of a settlement with U.S. states attorneys general following an investigation into a massive cyber-attack at the company in 2015. The second largest U.S. health insurer said a state sponsored criminal group had perpetrated the attack, adding that it does not believe the […]
Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach – Naked Security
The US thinks it knows who’s behind the vast breach that siphoned off 78.8 million customer and employee records from US health insurer Anthem between 2014 and 2015. On Thursday, the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two people who prosecutors say are part of a sophisticated hacking group, based in China, that was behind […]
In data breach suit, Anthem’s ‘blame the victim’ tactic doesn’t fly – FierceHealthIT
“One of the arguments … that the defense might make is that there are so many data breaches out there, you don’t know which data breach caused your damage,” Teppler says. “And so, you can’t point a finger at ‘Company A’ because ‘Company B’ also had a data breach–and you were a customer of both.’” […]
Court Rules Out State Law Claims for Anthem Data Breach | Bloomberg BNA
For the second time this year, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that state law claims arising from Anthem’s February data breach are preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Smilow v. Anthem Life & Disability Ins. Co. (In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litig.), N.D. Cal., No. […]
Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem Could Impact Millions — Krebs on Security
Anthem Inc., the nation’s second largest health insurer, disclosed Wednesday that hackers had broken into its servers and stolen Social Security numbers and other personal data from all of its business lines. Given the company’s size, this breach could end up impacting tens of millions of Americans. via Data Breach at Health Insurer Anthem Could […]