U.S health care portal was hacked HealthCare.gov confirmed.

This event from being hacked, although no cause significant losses, but still could not avoid questioning HealthCare.gov external security, because if hackers can successfully implanted malware in a single server, the representative of the hacker through the server can enter HealthCare.gov intranet, and then access other confidential information stored in the internal network.

HealthCare.gov
HealthCare.gov 
According to American media reports, the United States health care trading site HealthCare.gov this week confirmed that in July this year who have been hacked, and malicious hackers successfully implanted a server program on the station, but did not have any personal information leakage because the server belongs test server, so people do not store information.

HealthCare.gov for U.S. President Obama immediately Reno Ji in the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA) established by the Health Insurance trading site, which would require U.S. citizens must buy health insurance, on-line last October HealthCare.gov that is to promote trade and to provide health insurance subsidies for health insurance for low-income households, as Obama important reforms in the American health insurance issues.

Wall Street Journal and New York Times both quoted an anonymous White House official confirmed that hackers have successfully invaded HealthCare.gov and malicious programs. HealthCare.gov it said in a statement, because the hacking of personal data is not stored test server, so there is no leakage of personal data, but hackers are not specifically targeted to the station. HealthCare.gov remove malicious programs to assist DHS (Department of Homeland Security, DHS) said that, for the purposes of the malicious program launch denial-of-service attacks.

Because PPACA attracted a lot of controversy after the bill passed, for example, some state governments and organizations consider the bill in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and asking everyone must have health insurance, the related scams that have sprung up, making Obama government is more cautious in dealing with this topic. In April this year, came after the Heartbeat OpenSSL vulnerabilities, HealthCare.gov has not been found in the capital when a leakage problem, namely the abolition of all passwords emergency at the station, and requires the user to re-set a unique password.

This event from being hacked, although no cause significant losses, but still could not avoid questioning HealthCare.gov external security, because if hackers can successfully implanted malware in a single server, the representative of the hacker through the server can enter HealthCare.gov intranet, and then access other confidential information stored in the internal network. HealthCare.gov is in charge of Health and Human Services (Department of Health and Human Services) said they have strengthened security at the station. 
U.S health care portal was hacked HealthCare.gov confirmed.
Reviewed by Douat on Oct 13 2014
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