What a mess, but does highlight the fact that you know, when you gather a lot of information on people, you become a target. They really just do all the hard work, and make it easy for the criminals.
Obviously, a huge blunder of government, totally irresponsible and reckless that such a massive breach was even possible. And it happened in dec 2014, and they only just now found out. A team of amateurs could do better than that.
I know data security is hard, but maybe if the government spent money on proper protections of people's data instead of building data centers to spy on it's citizens, this wouldn't have happened. But it's clear that's not what their priorities are.
Really, just disgusted by this.
That said, what did they do wrong? what should they have done, that they didn't do? Getting hacked seems like an eventuality at some level. What can an organization do to protect such sensitive information, or at least reduce their exposure and the amount of data that is able to be leaked before detection?
Seems like you'd have to partition up your data at some level, maybe encrypt it at rest; but I don't know how far one has to go.
Obviously, a huge blunder of government, totally irresponsible and reckless that such a massive breach was even possible. And it happened in dec 2014, and they only just now found out. A team of amateurs could do better than that.
I know data security is hard, but maybe if the government spent money on proper protections of people's data instead of building data centers to spy on it's citizens, this wouldn't have happened. But it's clear that's not what their priorities are.
Really, just disgusted by this.
That said, what did they do wrong? what should they have done, that they didn't do? Getting hacked seems like an eventuality at some level. What can an organization do to protect such sensitive information, or at least reduce their exposure and the amount of data that is able to be leaked before detection?
Seems like you'd have to partition up your data at some level, maybe encrypt it at rest; but I don't know how far one has to go.