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Kevin McCarthy and Hakeem Jeffries demand answers on ‘significant’ data breach affecting members and staff


Home management from each events is demanding solutions in regards to the “vital information breach” of DC Well being Hyperlink leading to private data like Social Safety numbers of Home members and their workers being bought on the “darkish net.” 

Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries wrote to DC Well being Profit Trade Authority Govt Director Mila Kofman Wednesday, in search of extra data on the information breach of DC Well being Hyperlink, a medical health insurance market utilized by lots of of congressional places of work.

“At this second, the trigger, dimension and scope of the information breach affecting DC Well being Hyperlink couldn’t be decided by the FBI,” the letter states.

“1000’s of Home Members and staff from throughout the US have enrolled in medical health insurance by way of DC Well being Hyperlink for themselves and their households since 2014. The scale and scope of impacted Home prospects might be extraordinary.” 

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Speaker of the Home Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a information convention within the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Corridor Jan. 12, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Pictures)

The letter notes that the breach of knowledge consists of private identifiable data (PII), like Social Safety numbers. 

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“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) additionally knowledgeable us that they have been capable of buy this PII, together with different enrollee data on the ‘darkish net’ breached out of your programs, together with names of spouses, dependent youngsters, their Social Safety numbers, and residential addresses,” the letter states. 

“This breach considerably will increase the danger that Members, workers, and their households will expertise identification theft, monetary crimes, and bodily threats — already an ongoing concern.” 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y.

Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y. (AP Photograph/Andrew Harnik)

The letter notes that, “thankfully, the people promoting the data seem unaware of the high-level sensitivity of the confidential data of their possession, and its relation to the Members of Congress.

“This may definitely change as media experiences extra extensively publicize the breach.” 

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The Home Chief Administrative Workplace emailed Home staffers and members Wednesday informing them of the breach “exposing the Private Identifiable Data (PII) of 1000’s of enrollees.” 

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. 

Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)

Within the e mail, the CAO provides data to members and workers about learn how to freeze their credit score. 

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“We’re deeply involved about DC Well being Hyperlink’s information breach and the influence on our members and workers. We are going to proceed to speak any updates we obtain from legislation enforcement to impacted members and workers,” a CAO spokesperson advised Fox Information Digital.

Senate staffers additionally obtained the same memo from their “Senate Operations Middle” concerning a breach.

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