Anthem Inc. responded to a class action lawsuit concerning a data breach affecting 80 million by focusing on the 1 hot botton issue legislatures and regulators are focusing on:
whether the person whose personal information was hacked suffered any actual damages
Why is this response from Anthem important? Because courts, legislatures, and regulators have come down on all sides of whether actual damages is required in a data breach suit.
Anthem also provided all 80 million customers with 2 years of free credit monitoring.