You don’t have to be a direct customer of Anthem to have been a victim of the company’s recent hack.

Anthem’s initial analysis indicates that about 78.8 million people may have been affected by the cyberattack, according to the company’s Anthem Facts page. That number refers to the volume of people whose data could have been viewed by the hackers but not necessarily stolen from the database.

Around 60 million to 70 million of those 78.8 million people are current or former Anthem members. The rest include non-members, specifically current and former non-Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield members who used their Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance over the last 10 years in a state where Anthem operates. Doing the math, that means anywhere from 8.8 million to 18.8 million people who were not direct Anthem customers could have been impacted by the attack.

“Because of the way Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans work, we process each other’s claims when they’re in states where we operate,” a spokesman for Anthem told CNET. “So if you work for Boeing and their plan is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, but they have employees in California, our California plan processes those claims, and those people were in the database also.”

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