Hackers blamed for New York's Obamacare site breakdown

[LiberalElite]

Source: NY Post

The numbers just don’t add up.
The “abnormally high traffic” that crippled New York’s 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]

1. And I'd bet they've been 'helping' the fed site too n/t

[surrealAmerican]

2. There appears to be some confusion about the number of uninsured.

According to the Buffalo News:

The state estimates there are a total of 2.7 million uninsured residents, and less than half of those are expected to actually sign up for insurance through the ACA.

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]

26. Curiosity... Maybe folks want to switch jobs and want to explore options?

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]

3. These assholes really don't want people to get health insurance

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]

11. (Or it's the same folks who hacked Anthony Weiner)

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]

20. Or a hack is just

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]

28. Anthony Weiner hacked Anthony Weiner

[modrepub]

29. Or is it that the ACA

is such a great fundraiser that Kock and friends don't want it to get enacted and go away as an issue?

[7962]

4. Is a anyone surprised? Hackers love to muck up whatever they can get into.

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]

7. I agree, Lets kick the hackers as hard as we can in the nuts

There are a shit pot of them at the NSA, and we know they could give a rip about the law.

[groovedaddy]

5. Those willing to compromise digital voting machines would have no problem

with doing this.

[onehandle]

6. This is when I am in favor of drone attacks on civilians. nt

[DhhD]

8. Where is the NAS? Hope they are this one.

[ReRe]

9. I think two things are going on....

.... 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]

10. I'll bet they can trace it to

A basement somewhere in upstate NY

Just follow the trail of Cheetos

[SansACause]

13. Probably just the curious

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]

17. It could be, but it is a situation that invites foul play.

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]

14. its could be the internet teahadists.

http://aattp.org/training-tea-party-internet-terrorists-caught-on-tape-video/

[alfredo]

15. Why am I not surprised

[Demeter]

16. It's so much easier to blame anonymous hackers than to get some real data

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]

19. We have heard about the slow down due to traffic. Still it

is a perfect situation for a denial of service attack.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. It's criminal DDS. Investigate, charge, prosecute, convict, sentence, publicize.

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]

21. There really is a lack of criminal charges against the Re/Teapukes on so many levels.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Beck & FR & other Tea Party units have been accessing it to keep it busy

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3073373/posts?page=17#17

To: wbill

Well, given their penchant for attacking and lying about the Tea Party, if they don’t blame the tea party they’re 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 don’t, 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]

23. Here is the logo they've been using

[Lancero]

24. Called it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023773724

[Coyotl]

25. Proponents of online voting should take note!

[Pab Sungenis]

27. And their name is

FreeRepublic.

The evidence was posted here on the 1st. Criminal conspiracy.

[benld74]

30. Sure they can trace it, every IP that comes into that site they can trace,

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. A major talking point in the RX Noise Machine has been the "failure" to handle the traffic....

Watch it turn out the attack is all part of that.

Three guesses where it originated.

[judesedit]

32. The GOP will do anything to try to make ACA fail.Not to mention Obama.Sorry, assholes, you're losing