At least 4 states are warning residents who have applied online for unemployment benefits that their personal information may have leaked.
, the state only took those steps after a programmer trying to file for unemployment noticed a vulnerability that exposed the Social Security numbers and banking information of people who had applied for the program.showed that the state had paid a local company, Protech Solutions, $3 million to create its PUA website in a span of three weeks. Protech didn’t respond to a request for comment.
“It isn’t necessarily that unemployment systems are particularly vulnerable to data breaches,” said Tara Wheeler, a cybersecurity policy fellow at New America, a think tank based in Washington. “It’s that almost every kind of governmental data system, which is locally implemented on a shoestring budget, begun by a contractor who bid the lowest, and abandoned by the former and following administrations, is likely to be just as bad.
The second incident stems from one vendor. Colorado, Illinois and Ohio all hired the international consulting company Deloitte to build their respective PUA website, each of which launched last week. The states have since alerted residents of a potential data leak.that Illinois House Rep.
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