Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration and tax data

Re:Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration... by xfactor973 on Friday November 09, 2018 @07:52PM (#18419262)

Dammit. I wish you could delete accounts. I have tons of accounts and can’t seem to find links or settings to delete any of them to reduce my exposure to this crap.

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Re:Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration... by thsowers on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:13PM (#18419711)

In many systems "deleting" your account just means turning on a flag in your profile. Plus there is the issue of deleted accounts information previously existing in backups.

It seems like once we give any data to any company/entity/organization in this age that it will likely be around, somewhere, forever :(

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Re:Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration... by Jaepa on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:38PM (#18419973)

Well, you could try to do an account remove under GDPR. It would be pretty entertaining in this case.

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Re:Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration... by mburst on Saturday November 10, 2018 @08:00AM (#18421148)

GDPR is only for European citizens

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Re:Healthcare.gov confirms hackers stole income, immigration... by Jaepa on Saturday November 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#18422816)

Actually it applies to EU & EEA citizens as well as anyone inside a EU/EEA nation. Most places don't do any verification though. In theory though you could walk into a EU embassy & make the call from there.

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