Who’s to blame for the Anthem hack?

It landed in my inbox at 1:58 a.m. on Thursday.

“To Our Members:

Safeguarding your personal, financial and medical information is one of our top priorities, and because of that, we have state-of-the-art information security systems to protect your data.”

Oh, good.

Nice to know.

<starts to click “delete”>

“However, despite our efforts …

Umm …

“…Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield was the target of a very sophisticated external cyber attack.”

Or making this data worthless to criminals.

Otherwise, we’re left to end conversations with security experts like this.

“Good luck with your stolen identity!” Litan told me.

Good luck with your stolen identity!

Avivah Litan

And then we hung up.

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