Thursday, September 04, 2014

Obamacare Website Hacked. . . Like We Predicted

By Douglas V. Gibbs

On Tuesday, September 2, 2014, in an article titled Hackers: From Target to Hollywood to Home Depot, I wrote about the recent breach of Home Depot's computer security, and like the other target I discuss in the article, information about customer card usage, perhaps including PIN numbers, was accessed by hackers.  This followed a Hollywood hacker's procession where the images of movie stars were popping up everywhere, Target's accounts being compromised, and before that, P.F. Chang's.  I suggested in the article that if hackers can get into these supposedly safe and secure sites, then how easy would it be to get into a government site like Obamacare that has been criticized for not being built on a platform based on security?

I wrote, in that piece, ". . . through Obamacare the government wants everyone's private information stored in one location. . . even after they couldn't even get the Obamacare website to work right. Once the federal government has everyone's data in one location, it'll be like Christmas for hackers, and identity thieves."

The image I created for that article was:


Next on the list to be hacked, the image says, is Obamacare.

I told you all of that to tell you the following:

On Thursday, September 4, reports began to pile up about how a hacker, last July, got into the Healthcare.gov website, and uploaded malicious software.

Though no personal data was taken, based on the evidence available, the hacker did access a server used to test code for HealthCare.gov.  Perhaps a test run by those planning on having a field day with HealthCare.gov?  The scary part about this is that The Department of Health and Human Services only discovered the attack even happened last week.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Hacker Breached HealthCare.gov Insurance Site - Market Watch/Wall Street Journal


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