China To Blame in Anthem Hack?
Summary: Bloomberg reported that U.S. federal investigators probing the theft of 80 million Social Security records and other sensitive data from Anthem Inc. were pointing at state-sponsored hackers from China, an unconfirmed suspicion that would explain an FBI flash alert on Chinese actors targeting personally identifiable information. An Anthem memo described in Salted Hash said a database administrator discovered a suspicious query on January 27, 2015, and that the unauthorized activity appeared to date back to at least December 10, 2014, with the attacker using valid database administrator logon information.
Why it matters: Attackers held access to Anthem's customer database for more than a month before a database administrator noticed a query he had not run, and the FBI alert said stolen PII has been used in other instances to facilitate financial fraud.
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