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Company: Anthem Inc.
Current Parent Company: Elevance Health
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Penalty: $8,690,000
Year: 2020
Date: September 30, 2020
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: The California Attorney General announced an $8.69 million settlement against Anthem, Inc., resolving allegations that the health insurance provider violated consumer protection and privacy laws arising from a 2014 data breach. California's settlement, reached in parallel with a related multistate settlement (see separate entry), includes injunctive terms that require Anthem to make changes to its information security program and remedy the vulnerabilities that permitted the data breach.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Indiana
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: insurance; managed care
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