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Personal Healthcare Info of Over 11M Premera Customers Compromised

Posted by Soulskill on from the another-day,-another-breach dept.

An anonymous reader writes: U.S. healthcare provider Premera Blue Cross has suffered a data breach that resulted in a potential compromise of personal, financial and health-related information of as many as 11 million applicants and members. The breach was detected on January 29, 2015, and the investigation mounted by the company and by forensic investigators from Mandiant has revealed that the initial attack happened on May 5, 2014. The FBI has also been notified, and is involved in the investigation."

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  1. This plus Anthem (also Blue Cross) by the_skywise · · Score: 3, Informative

    And they've compromised about 5% of the US population...

    1. Re:This plus Anthem (also Blue Cross) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not 5%.

      The Anthem hack was 80 million people. This brings it to 91. That's 28% of the US population who have had their entire identity stolen.

    2. Re:This plus Anthem (also Blue Cross) by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Informative

      Because you have to be able to show you suffered a loss. No, and loss of privacy rarely counts (you need a really good lawyer to push that one). Not to worry, however - after some period of time and a few more breaches, the Class Action lawyers will crawl out of the woodwork and after a few more years, get some settlement from the various insurance companies that offers the lawyers a couple of million for them and free credit reporting for the Rest of Us.

      By that time the SCO case will have finally been adjudicated.

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