ABSTRACT
Hackers in China targeted health insurer Anthem to learn how medical coverage was set up in the United States as Beijing grappled with providing healthcare for an aging population, US investigators have concluded. Anthem and others in the healthcare sector, including insurers and hospitals, were attacked around the same time, according to people familiar with the cases. Smaller insurer Premera said in March 2015 that it had also been hacked, exposing the information of about 11 million people. The Chinese hackers had trained their sights on the US health sector to help the country understand how other nations deal with medical care, people familiar with the Anthem investigation said. People familiar with the Anthem investigation believe that gaining intellectual property and trade secrets were the rationale for the hack. The individual data held by Anthem, which insures many US government employees, could also be helpful to Chinese intelligence agencies.
