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Chinese national indicted on hacking charges in Anthem breach

By Caitlin Yilek
Published May 9, 2019 9:18pm ET
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Chinese national indicted on hacking charges in Anthem breach
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, a man walks past health insurer Anthem's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. Anthem, one of the nation’s biggest health insurers, says it will not return to Ohio’s public insurance exchanges in 2018, a decision that could open more holes in the Affordable Care Act’s increasingly thin system for helping people buy coverage. | (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

A Chinese national was indicted Thursday on computer hacking charges related to the 2015 breach of health insurer Anthem, the Justice Department announced.

Prosecutors allege Fujie Wang, 32, and an unnamed individual, who was also charged in the four-count indictment, hacked into computer networks of Anthem and three other unnamed businesses, installing malware and stealing personal information.

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