HackingStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICPHIHEALTH_BASICLowContained
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
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Full breach record for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association →Anthem Blue Cross notified California regulators and affected individuals of a data breach involving unauthorized access to member portal accounts between October 1 and October 14, 2021. The incident exposed personal information (name, DOB, address, email, phone) and protected health information (healthcare ID). The portal was temporarily shut down, and one year of Experian IdentityWorks was offered to affected members.
California clockDiscovered Oct 15, 2021 → Notified Oct 21, 20216d ✓ CA 60-day OK6 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-547906
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Nov 24, 2021
- Raw hash
- 997497bee5649ac39f72bd061cdd3082fafcc36d6ab49d1fb16645de4a56836d
Reporting entity
- Name
- ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC.norm: anthem insurance companies
- Domain
- anthem.com
Victim entity
- Name
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Associationnorm: blue cross blue shield
- Domain
- bcbs.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Oct 15, 2021
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Oct 21, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICPHIHEALTH_BASIC
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1114 Email CollectionT1078 Valid Accounts
- Threat actor
- External
- Initial access
- valid_credentials
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 6 weeks(40 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 6d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Oct 15, 2021→ Notified: Oct 21, 20216d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.