situation mr. park,. yes, sir. i want to treat you with respect. yes, sir. i ve got very few minutes. yes, sir. you gave that number, the number was erroneous. it couldn t handle 60,000 simultaneous users. document that is will be placed in record that show on september 30th, the system crashed with 1100. the goal was to get to 10,000. would you like to tell us for the record, based on your working on this, what number the american people could simultaneously be on the site working on, on day one before the system began to time out? so, to answer succinctly as i can, thank you for the question. the information that we had at the time was that cms had designed the system for 50, 60,000 concurrent users. right now, if you ask me right now, based on what i know now, what the system is currently capable of handling, the thing i would be comfortable saying is that the system has been
anonymous shopper function, did not work. now we ve seen a document with cms on it dated in the last day, september 25th that said it passed that test. is it that you did not know it had passed test when you made your statement saying that it failed? well, first of all, chairman, i would like to say that after working with your staff for eight, nine hours, as well as the minority staff, going through this transcribed interview, i ve not had a chance to look at this, so this is the first time i m actually seeing the results of that day. so what was it, look your job is to know what is in the site. the cms report that said, and this is september, before the launch, that you, the test had been passed successfully on the anonymous shopper. you testified that it wasn t. it wasn t and that is why it was turned off. correct. are you prepared to say under
yours that you would be pulled away from the website issues to prepare for testifying here today? so if there had been a question of, i will testify, just a question of when. it had been the hope of me and the team working to fix the site that i could continue to focus intensely helping to fix the site this month and come back in a few weeks. that being said i understand that the chairman came to a different decision. i respect that decision. i m the son of immigrants from korea. i have incredible love for this country. i have huge respect for the institution of congress and its role in our democracy. if the committee wanted me to be here today and decided i should be here today that i m happy to be here today and make the time to answer your questions. i understand that the website. gentleman time s expired. i ask for the same amount of time you had. i you asked last question after time expired. with that, it was completed. we go to the gentleman from
secure the site is today? that s the whole point of this hearing. we ll hear from department of homeland security officials. shell secure the.gov space and also from web sites of professionals. but sebelius and hhs rank nearly at the bottom of cyber security. they are the second worst agency in term of their rankings in cyber-security and it s 50% rate. that s a great concern when you look at what type of information is being stored in the exchanges with this website. it s a lot of personal data. so security information, e-mail, addresses, health information, which is some of the most private information americans have. so what i want to know not only when can they figure it but when can they security. bill: are you aware of this memo from september 3.
okay. mr. park, you re going back to something i hoped you wouldn t do, maybe gao can answer, volume on day one was not what it expected on day one, was it? the volume on day one if everyone is going on the site to see what it is all about, mr. browner? i don t have those specifics, mr. chairman but i will say this. these volumes, you go for examples on irs, e volume and people filing taxes on 11th hour, this is the same problem that irs deals with on annual basis. what you need to do is appropriately plan for your performance and stress testing and there s fundamental questions whether that was adequate here. well, that s what we ll discover through the the panel. mr. chao, i told you i would come back to you. you testified under oath on pages 151 and 152 on the minority s questions, that basically, and i will paraphrase because of time, this site, the