Could a data breach on the scale suffered by the Office of Personnel Management happen to Healthcare.gov?
In the case of OPM, they had been repeatedly warned that their networks were vulnerable to cyberattacks, yet did little to improve security. As a result, private data on more than 21 million people, some of whom were applying for federal security clearances, are in the hands of hackers believed to be from China.
At least all of these people were current or former employees of the federal government.
Healthcare.gov, on the other hand, now collects information on millions of private citizens who apply for ObamaCare coverage at this federal exchange, and operates a data hub that connects a multitude of other government databases.
It, too, appears to suffer from the same indifference to cybersecurity as OPM.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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