Hundreds of thousands of city employees may be eligible for identity-theft-repair and credit-monitoring services after hackers accessed the data of as many as 80 million health-insurance members nationwide. Employees covered by Empire BlueCross BlueShield could be affected by the cyberattack on its parent company, Anthem, one of the largest health-insurance carriers in the country.
Municipal Labor Committee Chair Harry Nespoli said that Anthem is the “primary” health-care provider for city workers and that the company told him it would provide a closer estimate this week of the number of city workers affected.
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