Obamacare security breach leaks 2,400 Americans’ info

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Title is misleading. Someone emailed a spreadsheet with IDs (including SSNs apparently) of insurance agents to an individual insurance agent. That's an oops and a process problem, but it's not the kind of "glitch" alleged in the partisan blog.

There are a ton of new web apps being deployed. They will all have bugs. Some of those bugs might be security holes. This isn't any of those. It's just a mistake.

Which part of a properly designed system involves storing lists of social security numbers in an Excel spreadsheet in the first place?

Yes, the government employee screwed up by sending this file (in plain text no-less), but why does this file even exist?

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