We have received a follow up from Independence Blue Cross as Anthem works to identify any specific individuals whose information has been accessed in the cyber attack and exactly what information was compromised. They advise that current and former Anthem members who received care within the past 10 years in any location where Anthem does business MAY have had information retained in the Anthem database which was cyber attacked. The locations include 14 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. If you have no employees residing in those states nor any students who had Keystone ‘guest memberships’, there is little likelihood that anyone in your group was affected.
In the meantime, Aetna has been issuing reassurances about their level of cyber security, a ‘robust combination of monitoring, detection, response and proactive threat capabilities’.
We are being promised regular updates on the Anthem breach and will keep you informed as we get them.