Primera Blue Cross Cyberattack

by Jim Bulling and Julia Baldi

Primera Blue Cross, a U.S. health insurer announced up to 11 million customers could have been affected by a cyberattack, with hackers gained access to its computers on May 5 2014, and the breach only being discovered on January 29 2015. Affected customers are eligible for two years of free credit monitoring and identify theft protection services.

See the Primera press release here and a CIO article on the breach here.