I'm not saying someone didn't mess up or that the security breach wasn't preventable, I have no knowledge of that, but I hope no one on HN is surprised that building a site that on the frontend handles traffic from a significant fraction of the US and on the backend interfaces with basically every insurer in 30-some states is something that might take hundreds of developers a few years to develop.

(Which again, is not meant to imply that there wasn't any waste or that the project was completely as efficiently as possible, but when people say they could have done it in a quarter with 5 people, I say, what is wrong with you?)

> On October 16, 2018, we found that a number of agent and broker accounts engaged in excessive searching for consumers, and through those searches, had access to the personal information of people who are listed on Marketplace applications.