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Trojan Compromises Oregon Taxpayers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-the-internet-is-for-porn dept.

Blair writes "An employee at the Oregon Department of Revenue downloaded a trojan file from a porn site, possibly compromising up to 2,200 taxpayers. An information technology security officer with the state said, 'the released data likely involved names, addresses or Social Security numbers, or possibly in some cases all three.' I guess some of our public workers are having too much fun after all."

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  1. moron! by eobanb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Forgive my crudeness, but...what an idiot!

    Actually there seem to be multiple failures in this. Running Windows, not employing some sort of web filtering software, lax rules on conduct...I don't know where to even begin.

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  2. Indicitive of a larger problem by mcpkaaos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What was real data doing on a workstation with Internet access in the first place? One would think (hope?) that such data would be under heavy lock and key and only accessible by the software written to manage it or, when absolutely necessary, a trusted administrator with lotsa logging.

    It is absolutely amazing to me that this event was even possible.

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