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Over the last year, cyberbreaches targeting health care and insurance companies have made'headlines'almost as frequently as those of large well-established business. 'Due to the sensitive material collected by companies in the health care space, companies in this industry are a particularly attractive target to cybercriminals and painful for organizations and their customers.
Washington-based Premera Blue Shield announced that on March 17, the company was the most recent target of such an attack, indicating that a breach the company discovered in January may have compromised information for as many as 11 million people. Hackers may have accessed Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers and bank account information and could have had access to the Premera's secure systems since May 2014.
While the company, which serves the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, has approximately 1.8 million members, the breach may have compromised details of former customers, as well members of other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans that used Premera as part of an extended network when they were traveling.' Premera has confirmed that Premera Blue Cross, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of'Alaska, and Vivacity and Connection Insurance Solutions have been affected by the breach.
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