Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400 unsuspecting customers

[daveman]

Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400 unsuspecting customers

Read more: Obamacare security breach leaks data of 2,400 customers | The Daily Caller

An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent.

One exchange staffer’s simple mistake gave insurance broker Jim Koester access to an Excel document of Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other personal data for whole a list of insurance agents. Luckily for the 2,400, Koester was cooperative — and unnerved.

“The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was,” Koester told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”


While MNsure officials called Koester and ensured the data was deleted from the insurance company’s hard drives, such an easy breach of confidentiality before the Obamacare exchanges have even gone live heighten the security concerns many have already raised about the law.

Obamacare’s Federal Services Data Hub has received heavy criticism for insufficient security and delayed testing. The data hub will centralize and route private information of every Obamacare participant through an endless list of federal and state agencies and related businesses, but lawmakers are worried about privacy as the deadline approaches.

Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Pat Meehan, who has been leading the charge to delay the data hub, criticized the security breach. “Obamacare’s data hub hasn’t even gone live yet, and already there are massive data breaches,” Meehan said in statement. “What more has to happen to convince this administration that the data hub is not ready for prime time?”​

 

[TNHarley]

if this is true, this is one of the things I was nervous about with this shit.
the govt can do.shit right. look at the poor USPS.. SMH

 

[JakeStarkey]

Congress is the reason for the "poor USPS."

Security breeches are never good, and they will need to be fixed, just like all breeches in public and private transactions.

Quite a bit of traffic on the web sites today, much more than expected.

 

[TNHarley]

it is the the bicameral legislature of the federal govt
fuck you fakey

 

[Political Junky]

The Daily Caller using scare tactics is nothing new.

 

[MeBelle]

The Daily Caller using scare tactics is nothing new.

Does Associated Press work better for you?

MNsure employee?s email breaches security | Austin Daily Herald


Here's some follow-up:

Minn. lawmakers to probe MNsure security breach | Austin Daily Herald

 

[Moonglow]

If it happened before any exchanges were open, how did they have all the info to send?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I like how the daily caller decided the story would seem scarier if they changed it from "insurance agents" to "customers".

 

[MeBelle]

I like how the daily caller decided the story would seem scarier if they changed it from "insurance agents" to "customers".

True-the headline is misleading...unless the insurance agents are customers also.

 

[daveman]

I like how the daily caller decided the story would seem scarier if they changed it from "insurance agents" to "customers".

Oh, it was just insurance agents?

Well, that makes it okay, then.

Oh, wait...no, it doesn't.

 

[R.C. Christian]

It was bound to happen.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400 unsuspecting customers

Read more: Obamacare security breach leaks data of 2,400 customers | The Daily Caller

An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent.

One exchange staffer’s simple mistake gave insurance broker Jim Koester access to an Excel document of Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other personal data for whole a list of insurance agents. Luckily for the 2,400, Koester was cooperative — and unnerved.

“The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was,” Koester told the Minnesota Star Tribune. “What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”


While MNsure officials called Koester and ensured the data was deleted from the insurance company’s hard drives, such an easy breach of confidentiality before the Obamacare exchanges have even gone live heighten the security concerns many have already raised about the law.

Obamacare’s Federal Services Data Hub has received heavy criticism for insufficient security and delayed testing. The data hub will centralize and route private information of every Obamacare participant through an endless list of federal and state agencies and related businesses, but lawmakers are worried about privacy as the deadline approaches.

Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Pat Meehan, who has been leading the charge to delay the data hub, criticized the security breach. “Obamacare’s data hub hasn’t even gone live yet, and already there are massive data breaches,” Meehan said in statement. “What more has to happen to convince this administration that the data hub is not ready for prime time?”​

Gee, who'da thunkit?

 

[JakeStarkey]

it is the the bicameral legislature of the federal govt
fuck you fakey

I know, TNHarley, it is hard for you to handle the truth.

 

[Politico]

Ooops.