Anthem, Inc’s Security Breach!

Anthem Insurance, formerly known as WellPoint Inc, the 2^nd largest insurance company in the United States with a customer base of approximately 70 million people, was recently breached in a massive cyber attack resulting in a comprehensive leak of 35 million records incorporating information from social security numbers, service records, and financial credentials to other personal information. Official sources confirmed that said breach extended to the various other Brands linked with Anthem, Inc. that were used to market healthcare products such as Blue Shield, Blue Cross, Empire Blue Cross
Anthem Blue Cross, and Blue Shield of Georgia.
It was confirmed by official sources that Customers formerly associated with the Insurance Company may also be affected by the breach along with Current Customers. The main area of breach included a wide arrange of company brands including Amerigroup, Caremore, Unicare, Healthlink, DeCare, Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia, and Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Customers associated any of aforementioned brands should remain vigilant conducting their day to day businesses and activities to avoid becoming victims to cybercrimes. Currently, the Insurance Giant has teamed up with Mandiant to identify which particular customers had been accessed during the breach by the attackers.
It still remains unclear when exactly the company servers infiltrated and for how long. However, the breach was identified only last week. Passwords for Company Employees with top level I.T access were reset, whereas individuals incorporating single factor authentication were blocked out. The insurance company has announced to individually inform every affected customer regarding the breach via mail. Such orthodox intimation by the insurance company shall barely scratch the surface of the threat these customers have been exposed to. Despite the free credit and identity theft monitoring offered by Anthem, said individuals are required to definitely increase their level of awareness and diligence.
While bygones are bygones, subsequent attacks related to the initial breach is highly probable. Although, the initial breach was a significantly massive attack on Anthem’s servers, subsequent attacks could be smaller in nature fortunately, which might give individual ample opportunity to circumvent any such attacks. Although the seriousness of a probable attack may be lower, however the frequency of such attacks could be considerably high on the basis of leaked information being shared to a number of different perpetrators.  Therefore, constant watchfulness is imperative, which is possible with the help of security suites including Antivirus, Fire walls and encryption softwares.
Individuals can level up the security on their devices by keeping up to date with the tricks and trends of cyber security and the internet. These include keeping Automatic Updates on, allowing devices to download latest security updates, which equips operating systems to fend off attacks by fixing loopholes and bridging programming gaps. Also by furnishing your device with the Best Antivirus such as McAfee or by using the Best Encryption Software such as Data Protecto to encrypt your information using military grade encryption incorporating 256-Bit Advanced Encryption Standard algorithms.