Hackers compromise 1.8 million medical records from healthcare provider Premera

Hackers who went undetected for eight months gained wholesale access to medical records and other personal data of the 1.8 million Premera Blue Cross health plan members in Washington State and Alaska as well as anyone who did business with the company.

Premera says in a posting that it has called in the FBI to help investigate the incident and is relying on Mandiant to help figure out how the attackers got in and to clean up its network.

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