The Department of Health and Human
Services says it has been unable to locate malicious software from
Belarus inside Obamacare computer networks, according to a department
spokeswoman.
Joanne Peters, the spokeswoman, told the Washington Free Beacon that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius received a letter sent last week from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) that urged HHS to shut down the network until the security of Americans’ private data can be assured.
According to U.S. officials, an intelligence report produced earlier
this month stated that software developers linked to the Belarusian
anti-U.S. government were involved in developing software for Obamacare,
formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
U.S. security officials warned that the involvement of Belarusian
software has made data submitted by Americans who signed up for health
care through the website vulnerable to cyber attacks, specifically the
loss of privacy data or identity theft.
The officials said they also urged HHS to conduct a search for
malicious software in the system that links an estimated 3 million
Americans to the federal government and some 300 health care providers
and insurance companies.
After the Free Beacon reported on the Obamacare website
vulnerability, the U.S. intelligence community withdrew an intelligence
report that warned of the problem from circulation, the White House and a
spokesman for the director of national intelligence (DNI) said. A DNI
spokesman asserted that the report was not properly vetted before
publication and circulation.
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