June was an active month in the employee benefits world. The U.S. Senate released a draft of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 which would substitute the U.S. House Resolution 1628 that aimed to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The U.S. Supreme Court decided an ERISA church plan […]
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Employer FAQs: Responding to the Anthem Breach
The first massive data breach of 2015 hit one of the country’s largest insurance issuers, Anthem, Inc., including Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and other related entities (Anthem). The incident reportedly affected over 80 million persons who are or were covered under a policy or program insured or serviced by Anthem. The personal note […]
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From Anthem to Brokers: Last week, we made you aware that Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external, cyber attack. Since that time, we have been working around the clock continuing our assistance in the FBI investigation; analyzing the data to understand the impact to our members; responding to questions from our clients, […]
Read moreAnthem Cyber Attack – For your information…
As you may be aware, Anthem was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber-attack. We were apprised of this breach early this morning. In order to keep our clients informed we would like to share the following information directly from Anthem. Anthem will individually notify current and former members whose information has been accessed. […]
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