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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. private information about millions of americans is in the hands of cyber thieves tonight. they broke into a database at this country s second largest health insurancer. it s called anthem, and it runs blue cross blue shield plans in more than a dozen states. the company says that database contains 80 million records including names, birth dates and social security numbers. a gold mine for identity thieves and con artists. it is not known if the hackers got health records. kris van cleave begins our coverage. reporter: anthem was one of thousands of health care companies warned twice last year by the f.b.i. that their industry was particularly vulnerable to hackers. in 2014, there were 42 cyber attacks targeting health providers, compared to just five in 2010. in this document, the f.b.i. cited the industry s lack cyber-security standards and said they were being targe ....
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. private information about millions of americans is in the hands of cyber thieves tonight. they broke into a database at this country s second largest health insurancer. it s called anthem, and it runs blue cross blue shield plans in more than a dozen states. the company says that database contains 80 million records including names, birth dates and social security numbers. a gold mine for identity thieves and con artists. it is not known if the hackers got health records. kris van cleave begins our coverage. reporter: anthem was one of thousands of health care companies warned twice last year by the f.b.i. that their industry was particularly vulnerable to hackers. in 2014, there were 42 cyber attacks targeting health providers, compared to just five in 2010. in this document, the f.b.i. cited the industry s lack cyber-security standards and said they were being targe ....
steps toward a truce. stocks rose on that news. president obama is in estonia where the u.s. will build up coalition to degrade and destroy the islamic state after they killed another american journalist. lvmh has agreed to give up its 23% stake in its rival. it will do struggle it will .istribute hermes president obama took the podium addressing concerns about russia and ukraine writing and the islamic states push in iraq. for more, we are joined by peter cook. there seems to be some progress in ukraine but a bit of confusion. at 4:00 this morning, we heard of a permanent cease-fire which was the statement from the president of ukraine. after that, we heard from the russians that maybe it s not a full cease-fire. now it seems like there is something in between. and ifoward a cease-fire this is true, this is good news. president obama said the same and press conference in estonia this morning. voice thear in his skepticism and the question about whether russia will ....
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. private information about millions of americans is in the hands of cyber thieves tonight. they broke into a database at this country s second largest health insurer. it s called anthem, and it runs blue cross blue shield plans in more than a dozen states. the company says that database contains 80 million records, including names, birth dates and social security numbers. a gold mine for identity thieves and con artists. it is not known if the hackers got health records. kris van cleave begins our coverage. reporter: anthem was one of thousands of health care companies warned twice last year by the f.b.i. that their industry was particularly vulnerable to hackers. in 2014, there were 42 cyber attacks targeting health providers, compared to just five in 2010. in this document, the f.b.i. cited the industry s lack cyber- security standards an ....