Crims snatch 5.5 million social security numbers from Kansas govt box

Monday 24th July 2017 19:09 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Toto, our data is not in Kansas anymore!"

563,000 adults (who would of course be the people with resumes posted with the state employment department) makes up probably 25% of the adult population in the state. Roughly 1.2 million adults from Alabama makes up about 30% of the adult population there.

But don't worry if you live in one of those states, because you get a whole 1 year of free credit monitoring to make up for your social security number being out in the wild for the rest of your life.

There should be an option to sue the ass off of the state of Kansas over this, but there isn't.

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1. Monday 24th July 2017 22:15 GMT elDog
  
  Re: "Toto, our data is not in Kansas anymore!"
  
  It would be too cynical to suggest that these "credit watch" companies (for profit vultures) may have an interest in exposures?
  
  I don't know how it works in the rest of the world but in the fine ole UsOfA the first suspected perpetrators of arson are the firefighters. Wonder why?
  
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Monday 24th July 2017 19:29 GMT Notas Badoff

Discounted?

Gee, will the state get a cheaper rate for the credit monitoring since those people are out of work or low-paid, thus not having much in the way of credit activity?

After all, Kansas doesn't have much money to throw around. Seems that the expected trickle-down from Brownback's TP economics never happened, and the tax cuts emptied the coffers.

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1. Tuesday 25th July 2017 12:44 GMT spacecadet66
  
  Re: Discounted?
  
  Hey, we've only tried trickle-down economics for a century or so now. We could start seeing the vaunted benefits of it aaaaaaaaaaaaaany minute.
  
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Monday 24th July 2017 19:38 GMT ecofeco

Kansas, the creationist state

Maybe they should have prayed harder.

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1. Tuesday 25th July 2017 01:42 GMT Gingerbeard
  
  Re: Kansas, the creationist state
  
  Holy pasta balls! if it weren't for the cuckoo KS creationists, our church would never have been born. Bow to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM eternal, Ramen.
  
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Monday 24th July 2017 20:21 GMT herman

The state should claim force majeure. Clearly all the IT trouble was an act of god.

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Monday 24th July 2017 20:54 GMT DNTP

All those people looking for jobs and sending in their CVs

And they couldn't find a few people in that bunch to run a database and handle security?

Also: They can't warn people because of not having contact info? Who sends in a resumé that doesn't have contact info on it? Or did their $175,000 emergency lawyers advise them "not to try so hard" to admit fault?

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Monday 24th July 2017 23:54 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hacker compromised database

How did the hackers break in, what was the name of the computing platform the commerce database resided on?

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1. Tuesday 25th July 2017 04:46 GMT Nolveys
  
  Re: Hacker compromised database
  
  How did the hackers break in, what was the name of the computing platform the commerce database resided on?
  
  It's Kansas so a shovel covered in poo and Dbase III.
  
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Tuesday 25th July 2017 06:22 GMT tony2heads

"Kansas has no data breach notification laws"

What century do they live in? From some of their education I would guess the 14th (obviously before the Renaissance)

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Tuesday 25th July 2017 08:14 GMT cantankerous swineherd

time the bureaucrats realized computers can't be secured and so stop using them for storing people's info.

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Tuesday 25th July 2017 16:34 GMT Bandikoto

And who is REQUIRED to make an account and post up their resume/job history there?

It's a condition of getting Kansas unemployment benefits that you make an account and put all of your info up there. So yes, 25% of Kansans have been unemployed in that period. (n.b. The real figure is slightly smaller, as it's all persons who live or have worked in Kansas and want to collect unemployment benefits from the state.)

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