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The Office of Personnel Management is monitoring whether the recently reported hacked database at Anthem Inc. has affected any of the 1.3 million federal employees that the health insurer covers.
Nextgov last week reported that Anthem informed the federal agency that it shut down the affected network following the breach of the database that stored about 80 million records of customers and employees.
Anthem, which is the nation's No. 2 health insurance company, runs the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Service Benefit Plan - also known as the Federal Employee Program - in several states, including California, New York and Virginia, according to Nextgov.
After the breach was revealed Feb. 4, just days after the company discovered it, President and CEO Joseph R. Swedish said in a...