Today’s Data Disclosure: Nebraska Child Support
Some 300,000 people and 9,000 employers have had their information placed at risk through a hacker accessing a backup server used by Nebraska’s Child Support Payment Center. Apparently, the hacker had access to the server for forty minutes, during which time they left a virus on it.
Why, if you had access to a system that handles $233 million a year, you would do something as mind-numbingly juvenile as planting a virus is beyond me. Fortunately, this is another example of one of the most important things that keeps society from crumbling down–Namely that criminals are stupid.