https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-steal-data-of-75000-users-after-healthcare-gov-ffe-breach/
By Catalin Cimpanu
Zero Day
ZDNet News
October 21, 2018
The system is named Federally Facilitated Exchanges (FFE), and is managed
by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Healthcare
insurance agents and brokers use the FFE to enroll users into Obamacare
plans made available through the official HealthCare.gov portal.
The CMS said that it detected "anomalous system activity" in the FFE on
October 13, 2018, last Saturday, and started an immediate investigation.
A breach was confirmed the past week, on Tuesday, October 16.
"The agent and broker accounts that were associated with the anomalous
activity were deactivated, and - out of an abundance of caution - the
Direct Enrollment pathway for agents and brokers was disabled," the CMS
said in a press release.
[...]
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