Obamacare creates ‘hacking target’ full of all Americans’ personal information

Published July 17, 2013 4:00am ET



President Obama’s health care law creates an electronic information “hub” containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information of all Americans, overseen by “less than a dozen” people, administration officials told Congress today.

Officials at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies will have access to Social Security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses — even “whether I ever got a DUI,” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., during a joint hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Health Care and the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection and Security Technologies.

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