Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400 unsuspecting customers

Via LH

 

An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent.

One exchange staffer’s simple mistake gave insurance broker Jim Koester access to an Excel document of Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other personal data for whole a list of insurance agents. Luckily for the 2,400, Koester was cooperative — and unnerved.

“The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was,” Koester told the Minnesota Star Tribune.
“What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”

6 comments:

  1. I see Obamacare is working as planned.

    Badger

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  2. My healthcare provider had a problem too...

    http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2013/10/02/1800-patients-records-were-inappropriately-viewed-unitypoint-health-says/article

    Yeah, it's secure. Right.

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  3. you didn't really believe obamacare was real?......did you?

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    1. :) I've been hoping that I would wake up and find out that "Obama" was a bad dream.

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