According to Anthem's website, it was formed by the merger of Wellpoint and Anthem.
According to http://mainframes.wikidot.com/, Wellpoint is a mainframe shop. Hopefully as additional details will become available. It seems, that unless you are in the know, which I'm not, that facts are in short supply and further, talking heads have taken a license to say what they please. Like others on this list, I'm also negatively affected by this. On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Jake anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > One of an article says the hack assumingly happened from an external Web > storage. > > So not a mainframe ? > > Jake > On 8 Feb 2015 08:31, "Timothy Sipples" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tom Brennan writes: > > >Maybe someone can tell me what difference it makes whether the data was > > >encrypted on disk or not (as some news reports are talking about). I > > >mean, if I do a SELECT * from an admin id I must be going through the > > >decrypt process, right? > > > > No, that's not a given. Many financial transaction systems -- handling > > credit and debit cards, for example -- store sensitive information using > > various hash functions. (The new IBM z13 includes a new format-preserving > > encryption standard that's quite handy.) There's also the fact > > administrative IDs typically shouldn't be allowed to do SELECT * -- and > > then SELECT * isn't actually SELECT-the-entire-database when you're using > > MLS. In a reasonably well run shop (or better) DB2 DBAs don't actually > get > > end user data access authority. I can't remember what version of DB2 > > introduced the more strict role-based separation, but I think it was at > > least as far back as DB2 Version 8. > > > > I'm assuming customers use IBM mainframes and use these wonderful > > capabilities (and others) IBM provides. Big assumptions, sadly violated > too > > often. > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Timothy Sipples > > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
