The data hub President Obama's health care team is creating to exchange personal health and financial information on Obamacare users will be a ripe target for computer hackers and identity thieves, charge critics who claim it hasn't been tested for security flaws.
"It's the greatest collection of private identification information ever assembled on Americans that will be put into one place," said Rep. Patrick Meehan, who chairs a House cybersecurity subcommittee. "It is every bit of sensitive information one would need to know to completely take over the identification of a person," said the Pennsylvania lawmaker.
The Obamacare data hub, he added, "creates a honey pot and the day that it goes online it is going to be a target for hackers and others and they are unprepared to protect the system."
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Asked if he trusted the administration to protect the personal health and finance information of Obamacare users, Rep. James Lankford said "No." Lankford explained that "there has not been a testing between all the different agencies. We're now down to right at two months and we don't have a full working test of this and you're talking about opening up a portal from an individual state that will run to multiple different federal agencies and it is a real target for attack." Lankford chaired the Obamacare oversight hearing last week.Read the rest HERE and view a related video below:
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This is a Personal information disaster waiting to happen. UNTESTED..We've seen in the past how easy it is to hack in to our Govt's systems.
Doesn't this give you a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing your info will be stored there?
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