CareFirst Admits More Than a Million Customer Accounts Were Exposed In Security Breach

An anonymous reader writes with news, as reported by The Stack, that regional health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has confirmed a breach which took place last summer, and may have leaked personal details of as many as 1.1 million of the company's customers: "The Washington D.C.-based firm announced yesterday that the hack had taken place in June last year. CareFirst said that the breach had been a 'sophisticated cyberattack' and that those behind the crime had accessed and potentially stolen sensitive customer data including names, dates of birth, email addresses and ID numbers. All affected members will receive letters of apology, offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity threat protection as compensation, CareFirst said in a statement posted on its website." Free credit monitoring is pretty weak sauce for anyone who actually ends up faced with identity fraud.

Comments

Is this accounts hacking day?

[ArcadeMan]

This is the third news about massive amounts of accounts being hacked in less than eight hours.

Re: Criminal liability ...

[Old97]

Care First is a not for profit company. No shares. No investors. It's member owned.