MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The state official overseeing the Vermont Health Connect health insurance exchange has apologized for not being fully candid when a legislator asked him during a committee hearing if there had been security breaches on the website.

"I was asked about whether any security failures had occurred in Vermont Health Connect," Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, said of his testimony Nov. 5 to the Vermont House Health Care Committee.

"I responded that no situation had occurred where somebody's private information had been breached," he added in a letter of apology to the committee's chairman, Rep. Mike Fisher. The letter was dated Sunday and made public Monday.

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