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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
7 more
  1. Turn on your carrier's port-out lockabout 5 minLimits harm from: SIM swap
  2. Turn on your carrier's SIM-change lockabout 5 minLimits harm from: SIM swap
  3. Turn on instant transaction alertsabout 5 minHelps you notice: scam calls
  4. Freeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileabout 10 minfreeLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
  5. Check your health insurance statements for care you did not getabout 15 minHelps you notice: medical care in your name (opens in a new tab)
  6. Remove your address and phone from public profiles and tighten SNS privacyabout 20 minfreeLimits harm from: visits or contact at home
  7. Use an authenticator app or passkey instead of SMS codesabout 20 minfreeLimits harm from: SMS code theft

What happened next10 events

  1. Undetected 2 eventsabout 362 days · show events
  2. Response 1 eventNo individual notice on record · Back to latest
  3. Remedy 1 eventOngoing · show events
  4. Penalty 3 eventsFine $39.5M · show events
  5. Disputes 3 eventsSettled · show events

Response: 1 event

Back to latest
  1. Disclosed that hackers broke into its servers and stole Social Security numbers and other personal data; the FBI was contacted
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

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