[5] Michael Daniel, chief adviser on cybersecurity for President Barack Obama, said he would be changing his own password.
[6] According to The New York Times, about 80 million company records were hacked, and there is a fear that the stolen data will be used for identity theft.
[15] Anthem hired Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, to review their security systems and advised people whose data was stolen to monitor their accounts and remain vigilant.
"[22] Federal regulators also conducted an investigation of the Anthem data breach, resulting in a $16 million settlement between Anthem and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- by far the largest HHS data breach settlement.
Unfortunately, Anthem failed to implement appropriate measures for detecting hackers who had gained access to their system to harvest passwords and steal people's private information.
[24] After contested briefing over who should lead the litigation efforts, Judge Koh appoints Eve Cervantez of Altshuler Berzon and Andy Friedman of Cohen Milstein as co-lead counsel, and appointed Eric Gibbs of Gibbs Law Group and Michael Sobel of Lieff Cabraser to head a Plaintiffs' Steering Committee.
[25] In 2017, Anthem agreed to settle the litigation for $115 million, the largest ever data breach settlement at the time.