Hackers blamed for New York's Obamacare site breakdown
Source: NY Post
The numbers just dont add up.
The abnormally high traffic that crippled New Yorks ObamaCare Web site for two days may have resulted from a malicious attack by hackers, computer-security experts said Wednesday.
The NY State of Health site recorded an astounding 10 million visits after opening for business Tuesday although there are only about 1.1 million state residents without health insurance and just 330,000 are expected to buy ObamaCare for next year.
Read more: http://nypost.com/2013/10/03/hackers-blamed-for-new-yorks-obamacare-site-breakdown/
durablend
(7,460 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)According to the Buffalo News:
Either way, it still doesn't add up to anywhere close to 10 million, but I do wonder where these numbers are coming from.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)If site developers assumed that only a fraction of the uninsured would visit the site... that's poor planning.
Im not insured, I visited several times during the day, but never got through.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)they're willing to shut down the federal gov to hold us all hostage, of course they are probably willing to attack high profile websites as well.
If it were a defense or intel site, they would be caught and prosecuted for terrorism.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)I have wondered why the Kochs wouldn't spend a relative pittance for sustained DDoS attacks, when the spend millions otherwise to take down Obamacare.
But sometimes a "hack" is just poor web site implementation and high demand.
bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)poor web site design and a kid with time on his hands.
But I don't think in this particular instance that it was a kid.
frylock
(34,825 posts)modrepub
(3,495 posts)is such a great fundraiser that Kock and friends don't want it to get enacted and go away as an issue?
7962
(11,841 posts)Its time to really start trying to track these types down aggressively. We've seen too many govt sites hit recently. CIA, Defense, etc
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)There are a shit pot of them at the NSA, and we know they could give a rip about the law.
groovedaddy
(6,229 posts)with doing this.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts).... paid hackers AND millions of honest people who need to sign up. Did anyone hear the NPR report yesterday AM? They played audio from California as they kicked off their ACA website on Tuesday morning. They were thrilled to death. "This is how good government works!"... or something like that, with cheering in the background. You'd have thought it was a different country, compared to the MSM.
durablend
(7,460 posts)A basement somewhere in upstate NY
Just follow the trail of Cheetos
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SansACause
(520 posts)I know a lot of people who have health insurance who tried to log onto the exchanges just to check them out. It could be hackers, but it seems to me more like the phenomenon of everybody trying to go to the new restaurant that just opened to try the food.
alfredo
(60,074 posts)I am not too sure about the journalistic vigor at the NYPost, but will wait and see if there is more evidence. I guess I should be monitoring Free republic to see if there is any bragging.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)and so irresponsible, too.
Given the ridiculous complexity of Obamacare, the software may have been stressed beyond the design specs, but we will never hear about that....
alfredo
(60,074 posts)is a perfect situation for a denial of service attack.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDS), done by hordes of computers that have been taken over by virus or worm or malicious website (all malware), requires purchasing services from a criminal enterprise that specializes in such attacks, or actively setting up an equal bot-net to do it. Both approaches are criminal. A third way would be to use a large server farm, but that would reveal itself by a small cluster of IP addresses and I don't think they'd be that stupid.
Find out who is at the bottom of the evil attack!
hue
(4,949 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Well, given their penchant for attacking and lying about the Tea Party, if they dont blame the tea party theyre missing a bet...
Besides, right here on FR people are admitting and chortling about going there for no reason other than to mess with it.
Glenn Beck was talking about it on his radio show, that is, doing it himself along with his radio sidekicks also doing it.
The Leftards monitor this site and conservative talk radio therefore they know.
Easiest thing for them to do is to say the Tea Party is crashing the website that would otherwise be giving you affordable healthcare.
Because the TP wants you to go without healthcare.
If they dont, well, they missed a golden opportunity.
If they do - then - true to form.
17 posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 12:55:44 PM by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." (Glenn Beck))
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Lancero
(3,003 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)FreeRepublic.
The evidence was posted here on the 1st. Criminal conspiracy.
benld74
(9,904 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Watch it turn out the attack is all part of that.
Three guesses where it originated.