Anthem health insurer data breach

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Made public · 78,800,000 people

What leaked8

Hard to replace

  • Health insurance or Medicare number
  • Mobile number
  • Home or delivery address
  • Email address
  • Employer

Permanent

  • Social Security number
  • Date of birth
  • Full name
  • Health insurance or Medicare numberhealth care identification numbers
  • Mobile numberphone number · type not stated
  • Employeremployment information

To-dos12 · about 3 h in all

  1. Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionabout 30 minfreeStops: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  2. Get an IRS Identity Protection PINabout 20 minStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
  3. Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsabout 10 minfreeLimits harm from: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  4. Check your credit reports every week, freeabout 20 minfreeHelps you notice: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
  5. Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsabout 5 minfreeLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages

What happened next10 events

Remedy: 1 event

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  1. Offered credit monitoring with identity theft insurance to claimants and fraud resolution services to all, or up to 50 USD instead for people who already had monitoring
Company
Anthem
When it happened
Company detected it
Made public
Notice
Leak confirmed
Affected
78,800,000 people · New York attorney general, multistate settlement; HHS put it at almost 79 million