Posted on 03/09/2023 3:37:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House and Senate were informed Wednesday that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, D.C., health insurance marketplace. Employees of the lawmakers and their families were also affected.
DC Health Link confirmed that data on an unspecified number of customers was affected and said it was notifying them and working with law enforcement.
Sample stolen data was posted on the site for a dozen apparent customers. It included Social Security numbers, addresses, names of employers, phone numbers, emails and addresses.
In an email to all Senate email account holders, the sergeant at arms said it was informed that the stolen data included full names of the insured and family members. An email sent out by the office of the Chief Administrative Office of the House on behalf of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the breach “egregious” and promised to provide updates. It urged members to use credit and identity theft monitoring resources.
The Senate email recommended that anyone registered on the health insurance exchange freeze their credit to prevent identity theft.
In an emailed statement, Rep. Joe Morelle of New York said House leadership was informed by Capitol Police that DC Health Link “suffered an extraordinarily large data breach of enrollee information” that posed a “great risk” to members, employees and their family members. “At this time the cause, size, and scope of the data breach impacting the DC Health Link still needs to be determined by the FBI,” Morelle said.
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Sounds like the House Democrats re-hired those Pakistani brothers, that they used in the past, to run their IT again.
no comment
The Christian in me desperately seeks for compassion, the human in me feels a not so nice schadenfreude.
Whaddayaknow
Be ‘funny’ if only Republicans’ data were exposed.
That’s what I expect...this will only be a release of Republican data. And it will disappear immediately from public view.
Hahahaha. Serves them right if they had been protecting the Data of the little guy theirs would have been protected too
Kool! Now we’ll know just how many times Sniveling Little Schitt has contracted rectal syphilis and how many times Occasional Cortex has been prescribed powerful anti psychotic medications.
Sample stolen data was posted on the site for a dozen apparent customers. It included Social Security numbers, addresses, names of employers, phone numbers, emails and addresses.
Too bad it wasn't their prescriptions, but it's only an "exchange". It would be in the public interest to know which ones are on Alzheimer's drugs etc.
Welcome to our world.
NOW it’s an issue when it happens to YOU eh?
...and does nasty Nancy actually have tardive dyskinesia?
Searching for the health records of the impaired leading this country
Wrong.
Your medical data is always secure, the nurse receptionist told me I was wrong.
It was all on Hunter’s laptop?
So does this mean we will get to see the list of the 200+ democrats in the House and Senate who got saline injections instead of the experimental mRNA shots and have been getting Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and Azithromycin for themselves and their families from the Congressional pharmacy?
Nah, probably never happen. The hackers aren’t suicidal.
Sounds like the Deep State / Creep State is gettin' after their puppets pretty hard.
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