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HHS-Run Website Hacked To Hawk Boots, Perfumes, and NFL Jerseys

Posted by timothy on from the but-don't-worry dept.

cold fjord writes with this excerpt from the Weekly Standard: "A portion of the website of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was apparently hacked as long as two months ago. SAMHSA is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS also runs the new Obamacare insurance marketplace, Healthcare.gov. Dozens of pages hawking retail merchandise have been uploaded to the SAMHSA site, ranging from NFL jerseys to Ugg shoes to Armani fragrances. ... Shortly after this story was posted, the site nace.samhsa.gov returned an error message saying that the site could not be found. Later, the following message appeared on the site (misspelling included): 'This site is undgoing maintenance. We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.'" (Screenshots in the story; Cached example from Google.)"

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  1. all part of the plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone who isn't addicted to American consumerism is mentally ill. This perfectly normal retail portion of the website helps Americans recovering from substance abuse by encouraging them to spend all their money on shiny crap instead.

  2. Article Moderation: -1, Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    A link to the right-wing near-tabloid "The Weekly Standard", calls the PPACA "Obamacare", assumption that HHS doesn't have multiple teams / varying levels of security and monitoring based on site importance, implication that a single hacked site somehow implies the entire department of Health and Human Services is incompetent.

    The fact that timothy green-lights this shit is mind-boggling.

  3. Re: I think that puts proof to the lie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe these servers aren't managed by the same people? HHS server admin and/or security may be outsourced? Or maybe it's the ACA servers that were outsourced.

    Just because one <insert something> is not managed properly doesn't mean a similar <insert same thing> that has a different problem suffers from the same mismanagement.

  4. Re:I think that puts proof to the lie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. The healthcare.gov servers are overloaded due to massive demand for NFL jerseys ;)

  5. The "person" who is behind that has many domains by caferace · · Score: 2
    http://www.ipaddressden.com/email/plowdennqsk@yahoo.com.html

    And the website that those jerseys were taken from and linked to is still quite active, with contact info.

    http://www.2013jerseymall.com/contact_us.html

    -jim