Security hole found in Obamacare website

CNN via Yahoo ^ | 10/29/13 | Jose Pagliery

[Kartographer]

The Obamacare website has more than annoying bugs. A cybersecurity expert has found a way to hack into users' accounts.

Until the Department of Health fixed the security hole last week, anyone could easily reset your Healthcare.gov password without your knowledge and potentially hijack your account.

The glitch was discovered last week by Ben Simo, a software tester in Arizona. Simo found that gaining access to people's accounts was frighteningly simple:

[Kartographer]

When the identity theft taking place by hackers and the criminals hired to run if, from the Obamacare site comes to light Who's going to pay for all the damage? WE ARE!!!!

[RJS1950]

There is way more than one. Our security people and others have found many ways that security has been breeched. It is a hacker’s wet dream.

[VanDeKoik]

Found the hole!

[ransomnote]

You don’t think they’ll obey the law and report loss of user’s data when they are hacked, do you? WOn’t they just claim “national security” issue to ensure secrecy so they don’t have to admit just how stupid they are?

[bigbob]

aw crap, now they’re going to be blaming HACKERS! for why the stupid website is unavailable...

[tobyhill]

Go ahead idiot Libs and put your SS Number in there.

[GraceG]

LOL

[dfwgator]

“That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

[Paine in the Neck]

"Security? Of course, we're secure. Nothing to worry about."

[Mannaggia l'America]

The Democrats will say that you can resolve this by using the phone to call and sign up rather than use the web... of course, the people on the phone are also using the web site to enter your information!! LOL!

Heckuva job, Sebeliy...

[Dan(9698)]

It was built on a peg board template.

[JPG]

Where government hides the security key.

[tobyhill]

The reason the Government wants the SS Number and other personal information before being able to shop is to create a database to give the IRS a starting point on where to audit.

[Resolute Conservative]

Just say NO!

[polymuser]

They’ll probably find a black ho, too.

[arthurus]

“A” secutiry hole? I suspect the website is a network of security holes. Anyone who commits his information to it is likely to suffer sever financial loss and harassment through the future.

[arthurus]

“A” secutiry hole? I suspect the website is a network of security holes. Anyone who commits his information to it is likely to suffer severe financial loss and harassment through the future.

[MaxMax]

Every Doctor and Hospital will have access to everyone's account and the ability
to change the data. So what's the problem?

[rfp1234]

The final idiocy of Zerocare: if it’s linked to the IRS, then the hackers could get into the tax return database, too.

And who knows how many contracted computer wizzes from China, Russia, etc. are already compromising the US central govt. from the inside?

[edcoil]

I am in the computer software business and have been reading the discussion groups by software developers and programmers and they are simply amazed at how bad it is.

Someone noted 500 million lines of code basically 1.5 lines per American.