HackingHealthcareFinancial ServicesHealthcareVulnerability ExploitStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedTargetedMulti-Stage ChainIdentity (basic)EmploymentLowContained

ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC.

bd_5bb5e58103332c9f · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Jan 29, 2015

Filed

Mar 20, 2015

To disclose

7 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC. →6 incidents on file

Anthem, Inc. suffered a sophisticated external cyber-attack discovered on Jan 29, 2015. BCBSMA notified Nuance Medical Plan participants on Mar 2, 2015. Data accessed included names, DOB, gender, member IDs, addresses, phone, email, and employment info. No SSN or financial data compromised. Anthem offered 2 years of credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 7 weeks / 50 days

Jan 29, 2015

Discovered

Mar 20, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

New Hampshire State AGbd_d4793a610fc324cb2015-03-18 · +2dCandidate
South Carolina State AGbd_f4f5ff0eb844cd372015-03-06 · +14dVerified
New Hampshire State AGbd_a9c16e6c6be5f1002015-02-18 · +30dCandidate

Name: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.
norm: blue cross and blue shield of massachusetts

Name: ANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC.
norm: anthem insurance companies
Domain: anthem.com
Industry: HealthcarellmFinancial Servicesllm

Discovered: Jan 29, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 2, 2015
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Employment
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationT1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Sent letters to members confirming that they were impacted
Offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity protection services
Changes made: Requesting affected members to obtain a new subscriber ID number
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 7 weeks(50 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 2 states

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New Hampshire State AGFeb 18 · first

South Carolina State AG+16d

New Hampshire State AG+28d

New Hampshire State AG+30d · this page

Pattern: first filing Feb 18 (NH), last Mar 20 (NH) — a 30-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://mm.nh.gov/files/uploads/doj/remote-docs/anthem-20150320.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Mar 20, 2015
Raw hash: faec91427a394eb25e5511a96898dce0608d8ed0ac26fa7edd1591c845d94572

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBlue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.

Victim entityANTHEM INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC.

Incidentdiscovered Jan 29, 2015

Stated responseSent letters to members confirming that they were impacted

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancemm.nh.gov