From the Cyveillance Blog:
Why the Anthem Breach May Be a Catastrophic Event for US Children
In all the noise around the stolen customer data at Anthem Healthcare, many have missed what is now a new and very serious risk to American households: millions of children’s social security numbers have been stolen, and will be used in waves of financial crimes over decades to come.
Anthem Healthcare (and other healthcare providers) believe they needed to collect their customers’ children’s names and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) to verify the beneficiaries of their health plans. If this is absolutely necessary, what Anthem should have done thereafter would be to destroy this sensitive information, which currently only resides in two other places in the world – with the U.S. Social Security Administration (the issuer of the SSNs), and with the Internal Revenue Service (needed for parents to claim tax credits for their dependents).
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