Friday, October 26, 2012

Security & Hacking: South Carolina's Department of Revenue Hacked

Saw the story at Ars http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/hack-of-south-carolina-network-exposes-ssns-for-3-6-million-taxpayers/

Sounds like all, or virtually all, of taxpayers of the state were hit by this hack, based on population of South Carolina http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/45000.html

This makes the town that got hacked seem insignificant by comparison, http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/10/security-hacking-hackers-hit-small-us.html

For more posts on these types of topics click on either Security or Hacking Labels, Labels can be found in Label cloud at left side of blog and at bottom left of every post.

I really hope this South Carolina hack is big enough that State and Local governments here in the US start taking cyber or computer security seriously.


No comments:

Post a Comment