House leaders say scope of health care hack ‘could be extraordinary’
Top leaders in the House said the scope of the data breach at DC Health Link, a program that administers health care plans for members of Congress and their staff, remains unknown, but the pair warned that the size of the impact “could be extraordinary.”
The update came in a letter Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote on Wednesday to Mila Kofman, the executive director of DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, requesting more information regarding the hack.
“At this moment, the cause, size and scope of the data breach affecting DC Health Link could not be determined by the FBI,” McCarthy and Jeffries wrote. “Thousands of House Members and employees from across the United States have enrolled in health insurance through D...