[jriordan]

Could this be any more patronizing and offensive? Look, if you are Anthem member, or if you were an Anthem member, you've been doxxed... and quite comprehensively:

have obtained personal information from our current and former members such as their names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data

And you were doxxed nearly two months ago. Or maybe not, because Anthem goes out of its way to NOT tell you when this occurred. If you were affected here's how they will notify you:

We continue working to identify the members who are impacted. We will begin to mail letters to impacted members in the coming weeks.

So sometime within the next month you will get a snail mail telling you that you were doxxed... and that letter will probably be extremely vague about the details, but will be quite heavy on the PR and perhaps even have a nice picture of Grandpa CEO at the top.

Anthem is not taking this seriously. No matter what they are trying to communicate with their PR gloss, they seem to care about covering their asses first and really don't seem to give a hoot about all your personal data that is out there in the wild.

More like AnthemLies.com...

[mattmanser]

That's not what doxxing is. This is a privacy breach. Doxxing is taking an anonymous user account and turning it in to a real person.

A pertinent example of doxxing is what the FBI did to linking DPR to Ross Ulbricht due to the mistake he made on a bulletin board.

[feld]

Dox -> documents -> publishing personal information, no?

Why does the victim have to be anonymous?

[oddgodd]

In modern usage of the term they don't. The term originated in underground circles where anonymity by all participants was assumed, and where there were probably legal or criminal revenge consequences for tying a pseudonym to a real identity.

Kind of like how troll now means 'person who is an asshole on the internet' instead of 'post designed to rile up and elicit frivolous responses'. The meaning has changed over time for better or worse.

[feld]

I don't know, even Wikipedia seems to agree with me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing

And didn't the GGers "dox" Randi, Anita, Brianna, etc?

But I'm even more old school because I'd just call it skiptracing instead of doxing....

[mattmanser]

You're ignoring the bits of that article you don't like:

Essentially, doxing is revealing and releasing records of an individual, which were previously private, to the public.

Where's the "reveal" in this hack? They'll use the hacked info privately or sell it.

[feld]

What are you talking about? I never said this was "doxing"; I know there was no reveal. I was referring to the definition of "doxing" which I felt didn't fit.

Did you read the comments completely? If Randi, Anita, and Brianna weren't anonymous but they were "doxed" it seems to me that "doxing" doesn't have to refer to revealing info of an anonymous person.

[mikegioia]

This is really frightening. Honestly, what are these people supposed to do now? I'm not even really sure how to vet insurance companies' data privacy, since most get their insurance through their employer.

[hockley]

The domain could have been created as part of a crisis preparedness plan. I know a lot of boards were scrambling to beef up their incident response plans after the Target and Home Depot incidents.