Spencer Bolesta After the spectacular website crashes during last falls federal health insurance exchange rollout, enrollees will soon wish the entire system had stayed down and dead. 404 Error messages and convicted felon Obamacare navigators may be the least of our health care tech problems now. The latest? U.S. intelligence agencies notified the Department of Health and Human Services last week that the Healthcare.gov infrastructure could be infected with malicious code. Whos responsible? Washington Free Beacon national security reporter Bill Gertz writes that U.S. officials have warned that programmers in Belarus, a former Soviet republic closely allied with Russia, were suspected of possible sabotage. A government tech bureaucrat in the Belarusian regime bragged last summer on Russian radio that HHS is one of our clients and that we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform. Gulp. When an authoritarian minion from the country known as Europes last dictatorship boasts about helping the Obama White House, be afraid. One of our intel people spelled it out for Gertz: 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.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:58:29 +0000