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WASHINGTON — A top House official said that a “significant data breach” at the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday potentially exposed personal identifiable information of hundreds of lawmakers and staff. In a letter obtained by NBC News, Chief Administrative Officer Catherine L. Szpindor said Wednesday that the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI had alerted her to a

Members of the House and their staff were told this week that their sensitive personal information could have been exposed after a data breach at the Washington, D.C., health insurance marketplace. “DC Health Link suffered a significant data breach,” Catherine L. Szpindor, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives wrote in a letter to colleagues. She said that while she

WASHINGTON — The data of more than 56,000 people, including Social Security numbers and other personal information, was stolen in a hack of the online health insurance marketplace for members of Congress and Washington, D.C., residents, officials said in a statement on Friday night. The D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority revealed the size and scope of the data breach on Friday as officials

More than 56,000 people, including Congress members and their families, were hit by a data breach of an online Washington, D.C., healthcare marketplace, exposing social security numbers and other personal information, Rolling Stone reports. More than 100,000 people utilize D.C. Health Link marketplace's services, which includes "11,000 members of and Capitol Hill staffers," according to