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Massive Data Breach At Health Insurer Anthem Reveals Social Security Numbers And More
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Posted on 02/05/2015 5:38:51 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ClearCase_guy
One of the best tv shows ever made.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:09:44 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Got my email from Anthem this morning.
Thank you Anthem Blue Cross.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:10:04 AM PST
by
JMJJR
( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
To: JMJJR
Same here, plus their coverage sucks.
To: afraidfortherepublic
There’s no reason in the world for them to have had former members vulnerable to an online hack.
To: 9YearLurker
Theres no reason in the world for them to have had former members vulnerable to an online hack.
Other than federal requirements to store that data for years, and to allow those customers access to records.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:46:35 AM PST
by
TexasGunLover
("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
To: central_va
Compartmentalising and need-to-know should limit Social hacks.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:48:56 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Anthem employee “Wait, I wasn’t expecting a UPS shipment. I better click on this and find out what is going on”.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:49:17 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: TexasGunLover
Oh—see what I know!
(I’m one of those former members who has just been compromised.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
It's nearly certain they were breached via healthcare.gov.
All providers are required to expose their internal systems to that unsecure data brokerage. And, all data must be in the same format and structure.
Hackers Paradise.
It'll be interesting if anyone comes clean on it.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:50:32 AM PST
by
Mariner
(First the GOP must die. Everything else comes after that.)
To: Mariner
Very likely. If true we will probably never find out about it.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:54:43 AM PST
by
matt04
To: Tijeras_Slim
Got my email too - switching insurance effective 3/1 after seeing rate increase about 80% and deductibles almost double over the last year.
To: ClearCase_guy; Resolute Conservative
"BTW -- the US military is actively moving to put more of their mission critical data in the cloud. But don't worry. They're gonna be super careful. [/s] "
OK this is a subject I'm not totally ignorant on.
1. There will be NO classified data "in the cloud"
2. "the Cloud" is a bunch of different things to a bunch of different people and causes. No matter how you define it, you're both right and wrong.
The biggest cyber risk to US Security is the way Contractors and Vendors handle classified data...AND the ease by which PERSONS can be compromised.
The cure to most breaches is to go back to Executing those who provide classified data to unauthorized persons.
Execution is a great deterent.
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posted on
02/05/2015 7:57:35 AM PST
by
Mariner
(First the GOP must die. Everything else comes after that.)
To: central_va
?Most of the time somebody bribes an employee for a password. Not really high tech at all.”
-this. Same with the Sony ‘hack’. If you part ways with an IT security employee on not so good terms, and you don’t change all the passwords, you have only yourself to blame. Of course Anthem has been known to cut corners on these things.. lost over 100k client records in both 2006 and 2008. then their security was deemed to be so terrible they were fined 1.7mil. Good places to cut costs - Security isn’t one of them.
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posted on
02/05/2015 8:09:07 AM PST
by
HenryArmitage
(it was not meant that we should voyage far.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
You should consider anything put in digital form being made public. Between criminal hacking and corrupt bureaucracies, it will be made so eventually anyway.
To: afraidfortherepublic
So,,, I’m Anthem BCBS Medicare. Do I need to go to my bank and change anything?
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posted on
02/05/2015 9:30:35 AM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: HenryArmitage
When I had to fire our key IT person, I waited 2 weeks before I actually fired him so that we could secure all our systems and have new passwords ready to go in minutes. The whole episode still gives me a queasy feeling. Fortunately there were no ramifications though someone did report that he made an effort to “borrow” their new password!
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posted on
02/05/2015 10:06:55 AM PST
by
bjc
(Show me the data!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
These hacking crimes are why I don’t do online banking.
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posted on
02/05/2015 10:26:23 AM PST
by
BAW
(My people skills are just fine. It's my tolerance to liberals which needs work.)
To: Stonewall1
Unless you have a B key that is mismapped to T on your keyboard, you may want to get a new calculator.
705 x 80M = 56.4B
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posted on
02/05/2015 10:42:01 AM PST
by
Go_Raiders
(Freedom doesn't give you the right to take from others, no matter how innocent your program sounds.)
To: afraidfortherepublic; lyby; LucyT; maggie; null and void; hoosiermama
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posted on
02/05/2015 11:32:27 AM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
02/05/2015 12:09:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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