Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data In Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms (techcrunch.com) 32
Late last month, HealthCare.gov suffered a data breach exposing 75,000 customers. Details were sparse at the time of the breach, but have now learned that hackers obtained "inappropriate access" to a number of broker and agent accounts, which "engaged in excessive searching" of the government's healthcare marketplace systems. TechCrunch reports: [The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)] didn't say how the attackers gained access to the accounts, but said it shut off the affected accounts "immediately." In a letter sent to affected customers this week (and buried on the Healthcare.gov website), CMS disclosed that sensitive personal data -- including partial Social Security numbers, immigration status and some tax information -- may have been taken. According to the letter, the data included name, date of birth, address, sex, and the last four digits of the Social Security number (SSN), if SSN was provided on the application. Other information could include expected income, tax filing status, family relationships, whether the applicant is a citizen or an immigrant, immigration document types and numbers, employer name, pregnancy status, health insurance status, and more. The government did say that no bank account information was stolen.
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You clowns think he's "hiding" something in his tax returns, lol. You know how I know you've never worked a day in your life? Because you don't know what a tax return is. It's the damn document you send to the government disclosing your financial position. You don't "hide" crimes in your tax returns, for god's sake. You can bet your bottom dollar that 0bama's corrupt and politicized IRS went over those things with a fine tooth comb, probably went back 50 years lol. Why didn't they leak anything about them?
Hmmm (Score:2)
Paper credentials and other imitable proofs of identity are going to be the casualty of virtually everyone's failure to secure the public's data.
It's probably time to invest in the companies at the forefront of biometric identification.
Breaches are as common as ... (Score:1)
... mass shootings in the US, and the response is the same: "Sorry about that."
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The mod score can hit rock bottom, but the disgust at lack of action regarding both goes much deeper than -1.
ACA is 4.8x higher costs than pre-ACA (Score:1)
Fuck you Democrats.
We pay more for ACA health insurance than any other monthly bills. It is higher than our car payments and higher than our mortgage. The increase for 2019 is 12.4% more than 2018.
Since 2014 (pre-ACA), our medical insurance costs are 4.8x higher.
We have ZERO medical conditions.
Fuck you Democrats. There is NOTHING "affordable" about this.
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It costs more partly because the insurance companies are required to actually deliver something now, instead of wiggle out of it as soon as you get sick (whatever your symptoms, they might be traceable to a preexisting condition you're unaware of). Congratulations on having no medical conditions. The whole point of insurance is to pay while you have no medical conditions so that your conditions will be covered if they develop later.
But if you want affordable, call your congresspeople and demand the option t
Repeat after me: (Score:3)
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Put SSN in a newspaper--it's safer (Score:2)