More news on Pennsylvania DC Link breach

According to a recent article posted to the list, more information has been leaked after this breach. The article is titled Hacker posts more D.C. Health Link data online, exposing lawmakers’ personal information which was quite interesting.

It seems that this might actually be a wakeup call, since a lot of the people who law make may be people that are elected through the democratic process known as the election.

The recent breach of D.C. Health Link, a health care insurance exchange that serves the nation’s lawmakers and Washington residents, exposed the sensitive information of 21 current members of Congress, two senior congressional aides familiar with the matter told CyberScoop on Monday.

The breach was first reported within the last two weeks after it was determined that lawmakers and their information could be compromised. According to the third paragraph, it says:

That file contained more than 67,500 unique entries. CyberScoop confirmed the authenticity of the data belonging to one individual in the data set, which includes names, email addresses, dates of birth, home addresses, Social Security numbers and details about insurance policies.

Since the 16th was technically this past week, its now two weeks although the article didn’t mention a date.

By late Monday, the user that uploaded the data threatened that more was to come. “More data exists, but will not be leaked for the time being,” a user named Denfur posted. “The use of it is something important. More than one database were (sic) exposed.”

Skipping a paragraph, I believe this particular paragraph may be more important to digest. It says:

A breach of this nature that includes the health care information alongside personal data can put victims at risk of additional scams and other types of
cyberattacks. The fact that it includes sensitive information about national lawmakers along with their families and staff is even more concerning.

So does this mean that lawmakers are now aware that they are just as vulnerable as we’ve been and they finally want to hopefully do something about this? I guess only time will tell what they want to do.

Thanks for reading, and make it a great day!