Government document: Health site posed security risk

Published October 30, 2013 4:00am ET



An internal government memo obtained by the Associated Press shows administration officials were concerned that a lack of testing posed a “high” security risk for President Obama’s new health insurance website.

The Sept. 27 memo to Medicare chief Marylin Tavenner said a website contractor wasn’t able to test all the security controls in one complete version of the system.

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