Bloomberg reports that U.S. federal investigators probing the theft of 80 million Social Security records and other sensitive data from insurance giant Anthem Inc. are pointing the finger at state-sponsored hackers from China. That suspicion would explain a confidential alert the FBI circulated last week warning that Chinese hackers were targeting personally identifiable information from commercial and government networks. The FBI said the tools used in the attack were referenced in open source reports on Deep Panda, a claim that also shows up in the Bloomberg piece. In the past two weeks alone, Adobe has shipped no fewer than three unscheduled, emergency updates to address Flash Player vulnerabilities.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/china-to-blame-in-anthem-hack/