Anthem Insurance, one of the United States’ largest health care insurance providers, announced that there had been a breach into their database yesterday. Hackers gained access to as many as 80 million personal records of current and former customers and employees, including those affiliated with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. If you are enrolled with Anthem, what should you do to protect yourself?
While medical and financial information wasn’t taken, other private information including names, birthdays, social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including some income data. So what should you do? Stay alert, monitor your credit reports and consider setting up fraud alerts for creditors and lenders to inform you when someone is using your name or social security number. File your taxes early so that no one else can claim to be you. Also, be sure to monitor other online accounts to see if any hackers try to access them using the information they stole from your Anthem account. While you’re at it, change all the passwords and security questions for them as well.
The best thing to do right now is to read our article titled “Identity Protection – Do I Really Need It?” It is very likely to contain the answers your looking for right now and will provide you with facts and solutions.
For more details on the breach itself, click here to see what NBC News had to say
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