{"id":748,"date":"2015-02-05T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:13:34","slug":"massive-anthem-health-insurance-hack-exposes-millions-of-customers-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/massive-anthem-health-insurance-hack-exposes-millions-of-customers-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers&#8217; details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right; width: 300px;\"><a title=\"By KMGH2.jpg: Andrew Williams (KMGH-TV) derivative work: Xnatedawgx (KMGH2.jpg) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAnthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield%2C_Denver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-754\" src=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/600px-Anthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Denver-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"600px-Anthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield,_Denver\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/600px-Anthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Denver-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/600px-Anthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Denver-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/600px-Anthem_Blue_Cross_Blue_Shield_Denver.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><small>Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Denver. Andrew Williams (KMGH-TV)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Well as far as hacks go, this is pretty amazing and if they are right and millions of customers have had their name, address, DoB, and\u00a0social security numbers stolen, a lot of people could find themselves being impersonated over the coming months or even years. It&#8217;s all you really need to make a company believe you are who you are not!<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"clear: none; width: 350px;margin-left:0\"><p>The attackers stole names, addresses, birthdays and social security numbers of customers from every one of Anthem&#8217;s business units.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Anthem has not said how many records were lost or how many people have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>However, security experts believe personal details about tens of millions of people could have gone missing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-31144917\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Denver. Andrew Williams (KMGH-TV) Well as far as hacks go, this is pretty amazing and if they are right and millions of customers have had their name, address, DoB, and\u00a0social security numbers stolen, a lot of people could find themselves being impersonated over the coming months or even years. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/massive-anthem-health-insurance-hack-exposes-millions-of-customers-details\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers&#8217; details&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers&#039; details - wade.one<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wade.one\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/massive-anthem-health-insurance-hack-exposes-millions-of-customers-details\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers&#039; details - wade.one\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Denver. 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