Cyber-attack stole data of 1.1 million users in US, says CareFirst

ronjor · May 21, 2015

21 May 2015 Reuters

Mandiant, the technology company that conducted the review, found no indication of any other prior or subsequent attack or that other personal information was taken, CareFirst said. The database did not include Social Security numbers, medical claims, employment, credit card or financial information.
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http://tech.firstpost.com/news-anal...illion-users-in-us-says-carefirst-267884.html

Dermot7 · May 21, 2015

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said it had been hit with a data breach that compromised the personal information on approximately 1.1 million customers. There are indications that the same attack methods may have been used in this intrusion as with breaches at Anthem and Premera, incidents that collectively involved data on more than 90 million Americans.
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http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/05/carefirst-blue-cross-breach-hits-1-1m/

guest · Aug 13, 2020

Federal Appeals Court Dismisses CareFirst Data Breach Appeal
August 11, 2020
https://epic.org/2020/08/federal-appeals-court-dismisse-1.html

The D.C. Circuit has ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to hear the appeal of CareFirst customers whose data was stolen in a 2014 data breach. The lower court in Attias v. CareFirst dismissed most of the plaintiffs and claims in the case for failure to allege damages and certified the dismissed claims for appeal. The D.C. Circuit determined that some of the claims could not be appealed until the remaining claims were resolved by the lower court, and it was not clear whether the district court judge intended to certify the claims of the dismissed plaintiffs alone.

The decision comes over a year after the parties briefed the substantive questions on appeal. EPIC filed an amicus brief that urged the court to impose a duty of reasonable data protection on businesses to ensure that companies protect the personal data they collect
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