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[ PRIVACY Forum ] South Carolina says it didn't encrypt hacked social
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Tue Oct 30 00:57:39 2012
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:41:32 -0700
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South Carolina says it didn't encrypt hacked social security numbers because ...
http://j.mp/WX2Qpn (Augusta Chronicle)
Up to 3.6 million returns from as far back as 1998 might have been
compromised by the international hacker, who likely penetrated the
Department of Revenue's system a month before the breach was detected
by the U.S. Secret Service. "The industry standard is most Social
Security numbers are not encrypted. A lot of banks don't encrypt,"
Haley said. "It's very complicated. It's very cumbersome. There's a
lot of numbers involved with it."
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Love their excuse. "A lot of numbers involved."
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