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ObamaCare Site Users Warned to Change Passwords
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 19, 2014 @ 10:30 pm In The Point | 1 Comment
What do you want anyway? It only cost $600 million plus and counting.
People who have accounts on the enrollment website for President Barack Obama’s signature health care law are being told to change their passwords following an administration-wide review of the government’s vulnerability to the confounding Heartbleed Internet security flaw
.Officials said the administration was prioritizing its analysis of websites with heavy traffic and the most sensitive user information. A message that will be posted on the health care website starting Saturday reads: “While there’s no indication that any personal information has ever been at risk, we have taken steps to address Heartbleed issues and reset consumers’ passwords out of an abundance of caution.”
The health care website became a prime target for critics of the Obamacare law last fall when the opening of the insurance enrollment period revealed widespread flaws in the online system. Critics have also raised concerns about potential security vulnerabilities on a site where users input large amounts of personal data.
Considering that the government knew about Heartbleed, this could have been easily averted, but clearly no one cared enough to bother.
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