(Bloomberg) -- Anthem Inc. faces what may be the first of manyconsumer lawsuits a day after disclosing that hackers obtained dataon tens of millions of current and former customers andemployees.
A California woman on Thursday accused the health insurer offailing to properly secure and protect its customers’ personalinformation, including names, birth dates and social securitynumbers, and she seeks to represent all other customers affected bythe massive data breach.
Anthem, the second-biggest U.S. health insurer by market value,said Wednesday that its computer system had been targeted in asophisticated attack by hackers. The Federal Bureau ofInvestigation is probing the breach, which people familiar with thematter say includes evidence that points to Chinese state-sponsoredhackers.
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