The FBI said its close to finding the hackers responsible for the attack on health-insurance company Anthem that exposed personal data on about 80 million customers.
Anthems current and former members can sign up for identity-theft and credit-monitoring services, measures to protect as many as 80 million people whose data may have been compromised in a hacking incident.
The hackers who infiltrated Anthem made off with one of the most prized possessions in computer crime: the Social Security numbers of as many as 80 million customers of the nations second-biggest health insurer.
Investigators of Anthem Inc.s data breach are pursuing evidence that points to Chinese state-sponsored hackers who are stealing personal information from health-care companies for purposes other than pure profit.
Documents stolen from Sony Corp. by hackers include detailed and identifiable health information on more than three dozen employees, their children or spouses -- a sign of how much information employers have on their workers and how easily it can become public.