Health insurance credentials fetch high prices in the online black market

SC Magazine ^ | July 16, 2003 | Adam Greenberg

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Here's to your health...your health insurance credentials, that is.

Information security service provider Dell SecureWorks has uncovered in a new report that buyers are dropping big bucks for health insurance documents that are being hawked on the internet underground with the goal of using them to commit fraud.

Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) senior security researcher Don Jackson has investigated underground market supply and demand for years, and beginning in May, he sought to update how buyers are spending their money in 2013.

Jackson discovered people are laying down top dollar for all-inclusive health insurance dossiers known as “Kitz,” or a little less money for the slimmed down version known as “Fullz.” Both packages contain sensitive health insurance information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and bank account information, complete with account and routing numbers.

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The article is a few months old but very relevant to Obamacare and the assorted State web based exchanges.

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Note to Admin, please change date of article to 2013.

[Excellence]

srbfl

[Mygirlsmom]

Since this was pre-Healthcare.gov, it sounds like prices will come down soon as the “market” is flooded with data.

[fso301]

Since this was pre-Healthcare.gov, it sounds like prices will come down soon as the “market” is flooded with data.

I wonder how long before we hear of an Obamacare "success story" that turns into a nightmare because their healthcare identity was stolen and used by others for expensive and embarrassing procedures?

[Mygirlsmom]

Sorry...you can’t have that appendectomy. Records show it’s already been done.