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Posted on 01/06/2008 5:24:20 AM PST by JACKRUSSELL
A hacker from China successfully penetrated Pennsylvania's state government Web site Friday, but did not spread a virus or compromise citizen data.
"We know that there was no damage done," said Mia DeVane, spokeswoman for the Governor's Office of Administration, which oversees information technology.
Friday morning, four state government departments received indications of a security problem. Rather than limit the response to just those departments -- Education, Labor and Industry, Lottery and Military and Veteran's Affairs -- the state shut down its entire Web site as a precautionary measure.
The Web site was down from about 9:30 a.m. to about 5 p.m. on Friday, said Ms. DeVane.
The greatest response from those unable to access the Web site came from people looking for Department of Agriculture information about the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, which opened yesterday.
An investigation traced the hacker to a domain registered in China, said Ms. DeVane, noting that the hacker was attempting to spread a virus......
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your story reminded me skipping over this one
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> Officials Say No Data Was Compromised By Hackers
Of course they’re going to say that. If they said anything else they’d be liable for legal action by irate people whose data has been compromised.
No data was compromised, just uploaded.
Or downloaded. The scripting of a blind proxy wouldn’t be realized.
Now everyone that has participated in Pennsylvania’s premise identification program could have had all their data downloaded to China.
Anyone have a PA ping list?
I would think more states than just PA would have been the target. At least PA recognized the breach...what of those states that didn’t?
>>>>what of those states that didn’t?
Since the Pentagon was already hacked, I’m sure more states were breached.
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