Obamacare enrollees urged to change passwords over Heartbleed bug

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Obamacare enrollees urged to change passwords over Heartbleed bug

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-enrollees-urged-change-passwords-over-heartbleed-bug-035659943--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ql6LuAYuySLxfdIWSLzGFg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-04-20T035659Z_1_CBREA3J0AZF00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTHCARE-ENROLLMENT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A boy waits in line at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, California" align="left" title="A boy waits in line at a health insurance enrollment event in Cudahy, California" border="0" /></a>By Chris Francescani NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans with accounts on President Barack Obama's health insurance enrollment website, HealthCare.gov, were advised that their passwords had been reset to guard against the &quot;Heartbleed&quot; bug, in a message posted on the site on Saturday. The warning marks the latest fallout from the widespread security bug, which surfaced this month and allows hackers to steal data online without a trace. Companies from Amazon.com Inc to Google Inc. have been forced to take steps to protect against Heartbleed. HealthCare.gov, a health insurance exchange for the 36 states that opted out of creating their own state insurance exchanges, was created under Obama's signature health care law, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</p><br clear="all"/>

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