Biggest data breach yet: data for 80 million accounts at health insurer Anthem

[ThePythonicCow]

The second largest health insurer in the world, Anthem (anthem.com), which handles various Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and other health insurance plans in the US, announced a few days ago that it had been hacked, exposing the accounts of 80 million current and former customers, including Social Security numbers, names, address, phone numbers, employers, income, email addresses, and birthdates.

This is sufficient data to enable hackers to open bank accounts, lines of credit, rent apartments and impersonate victims in myriad other potentially harmful ways. This Anthem data breach could be a 'lifelong battle' for customers (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/02/05/anthem-data-breach-lifelong-battle-customers/22953623/).

This would seem to be the worst hack in the history of the Internet, in terms of size, in terms of the financial value of the exposed data, and in terms of the potential damage that should data could do, in the hands of the wrong person(s) ... which is now where it is.

Those who are at risk are present and former customers of Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Amerigroup, Caremore, Unicare, Healthlink, and DeCare.

Here's a good article explaining what was taken, and recommending what steps you should take if you are a potential victim: Anthem data breach: Steps you need to take (CBS MoneyWatch) (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-anthem-hack/).

I first learned of this hack from a Jim Sinclair commentary (http://www.jsmineset.com/), which linked to the article Anthem: Another second largest health insurance company of America had the biggest data breach in corporate history (MicrocapObserver.com) (http://www.microcapobserver.com/another-second-largest-health-insurance-company-america-biggest-data-breach-corporate-history/235921/).

[Snoweagle]

So another Corporate power house has been hacked - big deal roflmao
So whats the problem?
The system is corrupt from tip to toe. It is designed to fail. Laws are created to enforce "no privacy". Those that provide privacy are exterminated. So on the scale of things, what is the real problem. The internet is not a safe place to be.

The most hilarious thing about this is they want us to embrace an "internet of things" lol

And only today, a complimentary post regarding warnings from Samsung in their terms and conditions of collection of personal and sensitive information from home products.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?79721-Samsung-Warns-Users-Not-to-Discuss-Personal-Info-in-Front-of-TV
And the retards will queue for days to be first to buy one lol

All of these things are linked. The intent is to disavow the human species from any sort of individualism or identity. A slow extermination process.

As for the people investing heavily in medical insurance anyway, they deserve as much hardship the system can throw at them. If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance. Of course this is my opinion from experience that placed me at the door of death a few times before the realisation finally hit home.

A great article advising the weakness of data management and the weakness of the mind. Enjoy, more to come methinks lol

[ThePythonicCow]

If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
Health insurance is legally mandated i the US - thanks to Obamacare :).

[araucaria]

If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
Health insurance is legally mandated i the US - thanks to Obamacare :).
A healthy lifestyle never stopped anyone getting run over by a bus.

[Snoweagle]

If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
Health insurance is legally mandated i the US - thanks to Obamacare :).
A healthy lifestyle never stopped anyone getting run over by a bus.

Absolutely right, Paul and aracuria. roflmao
Don't you get it!
mandatory conscription of private, personal and sensitive data to be given to whom?
mandatory conscription of private, personal and sensitive data to be stolen by whom?
mandatory conscription of private, personal and sensitive data is beneficial to whom?
mandatory conscription of private, personal and sensitive data is marketable by whom?
mandatory conscription of private, personal and sensitive data is necessary to whom?
. . .
and on and on and on
There can only be one group above all others that want these events to occur and they are our controllers. They give and take, like working a fish on the line and each time the freedom is lost until the catch is landed. Beaten and exhausted. Only this time it's our data which without technology wouldn't be out there in this manner.

Homo sapiens as a species is the most caring mammal on the planet in their natural environment with trade and economics being the engine of genocide that drives the differences between us.

[cursichella1]

Sounds like a virtual false flag to me. (And Anthem BC is my insurer...) Now the people will be begging for more "security".

[shadowstalker]

@Snoweagle
As for the people investing heavily in medical insurance anyway, they deserve as much hardship the system can throw at them. If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
That's might judgmental , Don't you think?

Not everyone is financially set to buy organic food, or buy MMS. and the like.

What about accident victims. car or otherwise.
What about Rape victims.
And so on and so on and son.

health insurance is not just for a so called healthy lifestyle.

And yes i know it's own by a bunch of bigwigs.

But with the economy the way it is, one would be lucky to get the cheapest insurance, saving money for any possible outcome these days is like pulling hens teeth.

Are you so spiritually set that nothing so harsh would ever come your way EVER?

[ghostrider]

yes , they gave out letters to all my co-workers about the parent company that provides healthcare to us , that stated they were hacked ... nothing is safe these days ... with all the cameras , spying and tech toys , one would think at least your personal healthcare information would be safe ... technology is and will be our undoing , for we are not spiritually advanced enough for the tech toys in the world today ... instead of making energy for the world , they made bombs ...

[Snoweagle]

@Snoweagle
As for the people investing heavily in medical insurance anyway, they deserve as much hardship the system can throw at them. If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
That's might judgmental , Don't you think?

Not everyone is financially set to buy organic food, or buy MMS. and the like.

What about accident victims. car or otherwise.
What about Rape victims.
And so on and so on and son.

health insurance is not just for a so called healthy lifestyle.

And yes i know it's own by a bunch of bigwigs.

But with the economy the way it is, one would be lucky to get the cheapest insurance, saving money for any possible outcome these days is like pulling hens teeth.

Are you so spiritually set that nothing so harsh would ever come your way EVER?

What did accident victims do before Doctors were available? They managed, as they do in third world countries today. They do the best they can with the resources available and the local knowledge accumulated over generations. These days that ability is gone, taken away by DEPENDANCE on the system. It is virtually inescapable and is corrupt to the core.
These days, Doctors are virtually useless unless they can prescribe medication, when that doesn't work you're shipped off to some specialised hospital for exploritories without any consideration to the bodies own healing process which is considered "quack" science. Codex Alimentarious specifically denies natural cures in the course of medical treatments and in America it is much worse by the deliberate intent on slaughter proposed by the federal authorities. The same will happen in Europe shortly when this Ukraine thing finally kicks off big time.
Medications from pharmacuetical companies are laced with malignant compounds deliberately put there to promote illness, yet above all other nations, Americans cannot get enough of them. Throw in a lazy diet of virtual poison and the circle completes. People whinging about not being loved and cared for, yet their plight is often of their own wilfull actions. Very few people question what they buy to eat, they eat because it is "nice" but the body doesn't give a hoot about "nice", it needs nourishment which is quite contrary to the typical western diet found on the supermarket shelves.
By the way, in China, they have embraced the western diet over the last fifteen or so years and already there has been a massive spike in the number of tumours and cancers impacting the population and placing a strain on the system there too.

Health Insurance is an invention of the banksters after the second world war in particular in the US. It has been a resounding success with people considering it a "back stop" in case they do take risks, a Doctor will turn up on a white steed outside the house to save them. Doesn't quite work out that way does it.

Food grows. Solve that problem. Don't try to change the corruption, you're only feeding the beast, focus on the products of your intent.

Yes I have suffered just as every one else, it took two heart attacks (two stents) and a stroke to wake me up and it did so big time. I have also been hospitalised after accidents but here in the UK the NHS "was" free and that is changing now.

Am I being judgemental? No - I am trying to promote awakening to our own dependance that has been infused by bankers into the western culture now for the past 50-60 years with sloth, gluttony and alcohol dependance in our homes and in the media.

Instead of bleating about "mandatory" healthcare - ask yourselves where did this "mandatory" bit come from and why are more Americans not marching on Washington or the White House, that would be much more positive than worrying about another database "hack". All of which is planned probably by the same agents of the bankers.

I know it is difficult, it's certainly not easy but the only way to find a solution is to collaborate with others and disavow the medical authorities the means of ownership of our bodies. Communities need to commune again, help each other, learn from each other and develop their environment so they are better equipped to engage with the macabre sciences of medicine.

My comments are honest opinions, they are not meant to cause offence, they are brash at times to engage the reader to seek solutions to suit them. There are some fantastic people here in this forum with great advice yet they become smothered by others apparently unable to find there own way, but they must, for themselves and the ones they love.

Soon there will be more hacking of something else vitally important to our welfare and people will panic again, yet this coming collapse has been advertised for some years now and people are not prepared and they will whinge and whine then in creeps in anarchy and the rest will be history.

Food grows from a seed. Not a credit card.

[Flash]

@Snoweagle
As for the people investing heavily in medical insurance anyway, they deserve as much hardship the system can throw at them. If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
That's might judgmental , Don't you think?

Not everyone is financially set to buy organic food, or buy MMS. and the like.

What about accident victims. car or otherwise.
What about Rape victims.
And so on and so on and son.

health insurance is not just for a so called healthy lifestyle.

And yes i know it's own by a bunch of bigwigs.

But with the economy the way it is, one would be lucky to get the cheapest insurance, saving money for any possible outcome these days is like pulling hens teeth.

Are you so spiritually set that nothing so harsh would ever come your way EVER?

What did accident victims do before Doctors were available? They managed, as they do in third world countries today. They do the best they can with the resources available and the local knowledge accumulated over generations. .

Snoweagle, this first sentence of yours is soooooooooooooooooooo faaaaaaarr from third world countries realities that it stopped me from reading the rest of your post.

I even went to see where you are from because I cannot explain to myself how come an Avalonian could be so far from the bottom line reality of the third world.

Let me tell you about a bus accident I have witnessed in El Salvador:

Salvadorian buses are filled, people on top of the bus, in the doors and of course inside. This bus was not different. It had felt on its side at a high speed when we arrived on the accident location.

We, a group of young Canadians and Salvadorians, were in another bus going for a 4 hours drive to the capital when we arrived on the accident. Our bus stopped to go to help if we could. The Canadian and Salvarodians in our bus lifted the bus that had fallen on its side to pull out the people screaming underneath, knowing very well that once their opened arteries would be relieved of pressure, they would maybe bleed to death. But we had to take the chance. There were people everywhere pissing blood, heads split from the bodies, brains split in two (by the way this is where i learned that freshly split brains stink). I was in shock.

I insisted again and again to take some of the victim in our bus to bring them in an hospital one hour away, on our route towards the capital. The Salvadorians in our bus refused point blank. I could not understand. One girl told me that the cops would come and their families would come to pick them up.

It is only in once arrived at our destination that the Salvadorians told us nobody would come for the injured we had seen in the bus, most would be left to die on the accident location, and that none would have treatments.

Those whose families would come were too poor to receive any medical attention and their family too poor even for traditional medecine. When i asked why haven't we taken them to the hospital, the answer was "because they would have been refused at the hospital entrance, because they are the poors with no money, and we would have been caught with them in the bus not knowing where to go, but don't worry, if it were our bus which would have had the accident, we would have had police, ambulances, doctors almost immediately because you are Canadians with money".

In poor countries, they are left to die on the side of the road like dogs.

Here, i am trying to promote awakening of one Avalonian on the state of the world and the conditions of others - without the moralizing traits of ideologies that have no practical sustenance in these countries - plain and simple.

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An additionnal comment: my mother was very sick when I was Young, and despite my dad having health insurance, the hospital cost was so high that he blew the insurance ceiling. Therefore, he had to pay the hospital for another 10 years, hefty amounts every years, and even if his revenues were very good, we were raised very poor because of it. So do not tell me your moralizing "we are subject to the beliefs imposed on us" mostly when children are involved. I am Canadian, social medecine arrived here just 2 years after my mom medical costs, so it never covered it. I do not approve what Obama did in US, it is to the advantages of insurers, but I do approve what Canada has done in the sixties for its population.

[Rocky_Shorz]

If they had any inkling of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle they wouldn't even consider the need for insurance.
Health insurance is legally mandated i the US - thanks to Obamacare :).

it is having an interesting effect, by giving people insurance that can't afford it, the cost of a tongue depressor in ER vs a Dr office is huge... emergency room visits are dropping, and saved non payment "write-offs" from hospitals covers a large portion of the cost of free health care, who knew...

Think of it as, everyone not insured tosses in a $90 payment for future available coverage...