http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381640/another-security-breach-obamacare-jillian-kay-melchior
By Jillian Kay Melchior
National Review
July 1, 2014
A Romanian attacker hacked the Vermont health exchange's development
server last December, gaining access at least 15 times and going
undetected for a month, according to records obtained by National Review
Online.
CGI Group, the tech firm hired to build Vermont Health Connect, described
the risk as "high" in a report about the attack. It also found possible
evidence of sophisticated "counter-forensics activity performed by the
attacker to cover his/her tracks."
The report says that no private consumer information was stored on the
hacked server, and that CGI Group had "verified that no additional servers
[that may store private data] communicated with any of the identified
attacker IP addresses."
But Michael Gregg, the CEO of the cyber-security consulting firm Superior
Solutions, says it's possible the hacker went on to access other parts of
Vermont Health Connect, covering his tracks and remaining undetected to
this day.
"There is potential for consumer risk," says Gregg, who has also testified
to Congress about cyber-security risks for HealthCare.gov. "Best practices
were not carried out in several respects. All those point to the
possibility of further or additional breaches, because they have just not
shown that they have done the due diligence, and without those controls in
place, it's hard to say. The attacker could have captured passwords on
additional systems and used those to create different accounts that
Vermont Health Connect doesn’t know about yet."
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