Insurance companies are withholding the names of executives after UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was killed

Obvious The targeted assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Anderson— and, perhaps more surprisingly, emotions support for a murderer and a general disdain for the healthcare industry Generally expressed by the public. insurance companies are taking extra precautions to protect their management teams, including removing their names and pictures from company websites.

404 Media found several companies that have purged their executives’ references, including Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, which removed his management page which previously listed CEO Kim Keck and 28 other executives URL for the management page now just redirects to the company’s About Us page Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield recently came under fire for announcing that it would set a time limit about how long it will cover the costs of anesthesia during surgeries and medical procedures, it decides went back following reaction (although depending on who you askthe policy would not be as bad as it seemed for the patients).

While the heat was on Anthem BCBS, it was far from the only company trying to hide its leadership @GASLIGHTER_. observed similar experiments CareSource, a nonprofit health insurance organization, previously posted personal pages for its executives, including President and CEO Erhard Preitauer. Trying to visit those pages now results in a 404 error.

Other companies trying to eliminate executive mentions include Medica Healthcare, which removed his Leaders page which was previously listed by President and CEO Lisa Erickson along with several other top executives page: now redirecting to company homepage.

To hide who runs these companies, the Wikipedia editor has nominated David Joyner, CEO of CVS, to be removed. Joyner’s entry remains live on Wikipedia at the time of publication.

Attempts to remove the page were successful negative feedback from other editors. “That’s a crazy reaction to the CEO of UHC. Are you really that crazy?” one of the editors said in the thread discussing the deletion attempt. Another user also pushed back, stating: “The article is supposed to protect the interests of the community. Also, it’s strange that you bring it up at a very convenient time when CEOs are trying to cover their digital tracks. I don’t believe you’re doing it in a real way.”

The decision by insurance companies to try to remove mentions of their respective CEOs from the web appears to be a bit of a security issue. Information about who runs these companies is still available all over the web, from company investor relations pages to LinkedIn. to business intelligence platforms like ZoomInfo. Unless these companies are planned to eventually be run by anonymous people in black coats and face masks and surrounded With 24/7 security, axing “about us” pages seems like an ineffective security measure.