(Bloomberg) — Insurance regulators in states including Washington and Alaska are launching an investigation into the cyberattack on health insurer Premera Blue Cross.
State watchdogs will look into "what happened, how it happened, and what the end result or consumer impact is," Lori Wing-Heier, director of Alaska's Division of Insurance, said Friday.
The regulators will examine whether there's a connection between the attack on Premera and a cyberattack on Anthem Inc. That company, the second-largest U.S. health insurer, said last month that hackers accessed information on 78.8 million people.
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