Hackers stole income, immigration and tax data in Healthcare.gov breach, government confirms

Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a post buried on its website that the hackers obtained inappropriate access to a number of broker and agent accounts, which engaged in excessive searching of the governments healthcare marketplace systems.CMS didnt say how the attackers gained access to the accounts, but said it shut off...