Justin Howard got a letter from his health insurance company saying his personal information may have been compromised. He's not the only one.
The letters went out to 230,000 people who applied to get individual health insurance with Anthem Blue Cross.
The confusion was with the Anthem Blue Cross website that allowed people to track their applications. The security breach happened when Anthem updated their system. The problem: security measures were not properly replaced after the change.
Xukai Zou, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at IUPUI that specializes in internet security said making sure personal information is protected is not easy.
Zou said that many different levels of security must be used as well as different techniques. One of the most common: encryption. It takes information and jumbles it up so someone attacking your system cannot see what is there.
Anthem has since corrected the problem and is now offering customers a year of identity theft protection for free.
Justin Howard said he never felt like the breech was a big deal.
