http://freebeacon.com/the-belarusian-connection/
By Bill Gertz
Washington Free Beacon
February 3, 2014
U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to
check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning
that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the
website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of
Americans will be compromised.
The intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human
Services, the agency in charge of the Healthcare.gov network, about their
concerns last week. Specifically, officials warned that programmers in
Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were
suspected of inserting malicious code that could be used for cyber
attacks, according to U.S. officials familiar with the concerns.
The software links the millions of Americans who signed up for Obamacare
to the federal government and more than 300 medical institutions and
healthcare providers.
“The U.S. Affordable Care Act software was written in part in Belarus by
software developers under state control, and that makes the software a
potential target for cyber attacks,” one official said.
Cyber security officials said the potential threat to the U.S. healthcare
data is compounded by what they said was an Internet data “hijacking” last
year involving Belarusian state-controlled networks. The month-long
diversion covertly rerouted massive amounts of U.S. Internet traffic to
Belarus -- a repressive dictatorship located between Russia, Poland, and
Ukraine.
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