House members on Wednesday demanded accountability for a health care data breach in which personal information of more than a dozen lawmakers, hundreds of staff members and their dependents was posted online.
The breach was the result of human error, according to Mila Kofman, executive director of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority. Kofman’s agency oversees DC’s health insurance marketplace, DC Health Link, which was hacked in March.
A server containing the personal information was misconfigured in a way that allowed access without proper authentication, Kofman said at a House hearing.
