Security Expert Claims To Gain Info On 70-K ObamaCare Records in 4 Minutes
January 21, 2014 – 3:08 PM
By Eric Scheiner
A cyber security expert claims he could gain access to 70,000 personal records of ObamaCare enrollees in about 4 minutes.
David Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec, told Fox News Sunday the information can be obtained without even hacking.
This blog post was written by David Kennedy – CEO of TrustedSec
Update 1: There’s been a few stories running around in the media around accessing 70,000 records on the healthcare.gov website. Just to note on this, we never accessed 70,000 records nor is it directly on the healthcare.gov website (a sub-site for the infrastructure). The number 70,000 was a number that was tested for as an example through utilizing Google’s advanced search functionality as well as normally browsing the website. No dumping of data, malicious intent, hacking, or even viewing of the information was done. We do not support the statements from the news organizations. From a previous blog post, the information shown in the python script was sanitized and not used through Google scraping (urllib2 python module). We’ve reached out to the news agencies to clarify as these were not our words.
Update 2: The Washington Times – the author of the story responded and is correcting the article to reflect accurately. Special thanks to them and the fast response.
https://www.trustedsec.com/january-2014/explaining-security-issues-healthcare-gov/