The Washington Free Beacon’s Liz Harrington joined the Heritage Foundation Thursday to discuss healthcare.gov’s numerous security issues, saying that no law requires the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to disclose whether someone’s personal information has been compromised by a security breach.
"All the experts say there was never any security built into the website," Harrington said, noting that professional hackers have advised users to not enter any of their personal information on the site.
Said Harrington, "There’s no law that requires [CMS or HHS] to disclose if someone’s personal information has been compromised. So it’s like, whom do you trust?"
Harrington also noted that the Department of Energy recently disclosed that they had recently been subject to a cyber attack, in which the personal information of 100,000 of their employees was compromised. "So if another government agency isn’t even protecting its own employees, how do we expect healthcare.gov to be safe, and Americans’ personal information to be safe on the site?" Harrington said.
