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Anthem hack: How secure is our personal data?
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Feb 5, 2015
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Anthem hack: How secure is our personal data?
Health provider Anthem announced that 80 million customer and employee data were stolen in a hack, one of the largest breaches in the healthcare industry.
File: The Anthem Blue Cross headquarters on February 9, 2010 in Woodland Hills, California.
The Anthem Blue Cross headquarters in Woodland Hills, California.
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Health provider Anthem announced that 80 million customer and employee data were stolen in a hack, one of the largest breaches in the healthcare industry.

Target, Home Depot, Sony ... and now Anthem.

It's the second-biggest health insurance company in the country with 80 million customers and employees, and it's the subject of a massive data breach.

In California alone, the personal info of more than 37 million customers was stolen including names, Social Security numbers and addresses.

The company maintains that credit cards or medical information were not taken.

Danny Yadron, cybersecurity reporter for the Wall Street Journal, explains how secure our personal data are with health companies.