‘Massive South Carolina Data Breach Shows Your Data Is Always At Risk’ – ‘ReadWrite’

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Massive South Carolina Data Breach Shows Your Data Is Always At Risk”.

Antone Gonsalves says, “South Carolina shocked taxpayers Oct. 26 when it said 3.6 million returns dating back to 1998 had been hacked. All of the social security numbers and about 16,000 credit and debit card numbers on the returns were unencrypted, which means there was little stopping the overseas hackers from using the data. But what made this more than just another large-scale data breach was Gov. Nikki Haley’s explanation for leaving such sensitive information in plain text. In her administration’s view, the state was following the “industry standard.””.

Massive South Carolina Data Breach Shows Your Data Is Always At Risk

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