Key official kept out of loop on Obamacare security threats

Forbes:

One of the most underappreciated, but important, problems with Obamacare’s troubled health insurance exchanges are their inadequate safeguards against identity theft and misuse of private information. We’ve now learned that an important government report detailing “high risks” to the security of the Obamacare website was concealed from a key official, Henry Chao. The concealment misled Chao to believe that there were no longer any high security risks to the launch of the federal exchange, prompting him to recommend the approval of healthcare.gov. “I’m not even copied on this,” exclaimed Chao in aNovember 1 interview with the House Oversight Committee, where he was presented with the security report for the first time. “It is disturbing…This is…a fairly non-standard way to document a decision.”

It’s not clear whether or not the concealment was intentional. “I don’t want to think the worst of people,” Chao told investigators. But he acknowledged that it was “kind of strange” that he wasn’t included on the email that contained this critical information, given that there were people that report directly to him that were included on it, along with his direct superiors. “Why I’m surprised is that [Teresa Fryer, the Chief Information Security Officer] had me do this, file this process, but [didn’t] copy me on the [Authorization to Operate] letter. I mean, wouldn’t you be surprised if you were me?”
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Again we see either incompetence or deliberate attempts to keep important information from decision makers.  It is likely Chao would not have approved the use of the software if he had been made aware of the security issues.