100,000 More Social Security Numbers Exposed

ThinkComp writes "PayMaxx, Inc. is a web-based payroll processing company, and they recently notified me that my on-line form W-2 was available. And so it was, along with the W-2 (including SSN and salary data) of every other one-time PayMaxx customer dating back at least five years, possibly 100,000 in all. Through news.com, PayMaxx reports, 'PayMaxx has made and continues to make every effort to secure its system against any breach,' which is why part of their site has been down now for several days."

Comments

Re:Define "breach"

[Ironsides]

Well, since their security consisted of "So long as no one increments their unique number we assigned them by 1 in the browser location bar", I'd say that they were pretty much dumb idiots. Sloppy doesn't begin to cover this.