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CareFirst Announces Data Breach

May 21, 2015

Attention enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Another Blue Cross Blue Shield partner, CareFirst, has announced that one of its databases, containing information on more than one million current and former customers, was illegally hacked last year. The June 2014 cyber attackers gained access to a single database in which CareFirst stores data that members and other individuals enter to access CareFirst’s websites and online services. The attackers are thought to have gained access to the user names customers used for CareFirst’s websites, actual names, dates of birth, email addresses and enrollees identification numbers. The FBI is investigating the crime. CareFirst is offering affected customers free credit monitoring.  CareFirst has additional information on this cyberattack at:  http://carefirstanswers.com/