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Missouri Refers Coordinated Bug Disclosure to Prosecutors

15

Oct

2021

A newspaper reporter in Missouri who responsibly reported the exposure of Social Security numbers on a state government website has been accused of malicious hacking by the state’s governor. Gov. Michael L. Parson tweeted that the person, who works for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, gained access to the data by decoding the HTML source code […]

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OPM underestimated the number of stolen fingerprints by 4.5 million

24

Sep

2015

The number of people whose #fingerprints have been stolen as a result of the high-profile hack into the computer systems of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management earlier this year is now 5.6 million. The agency revised its original estimate of 1.1 million Wednesday after finding fingerprint data in archived records that had previously not […]

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Hackers had access to US security clearance data for a year

20

Jun

2015

Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information on government employees with security clearances had access to the system for about a year before being discovered, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management dates back to June or July last year and was only discovered earlier […]

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