Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in colossal cyber-attack

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: Oregon, Louisiana DMV databases hacked.

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Source: The Guardian

Every Louisiana driver’s license holder exposed in colossal cyber-attack

Russia-linked group claims responsibility for hack, which targeted MOVEit software also used by the BBC and British Airways

Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans
Fri 16 Jun 2023 17.21 BST

Personal details for every holder of a driver’s license from the US state of Louisiana were exposed to hackers who have pulled off a colossal cyber-attack that also affected American federal agencies, British Airways and the BBC, according to officials.

A statement on Thursday from the governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, said that his staff believes everyone with a driver’s license, identification card or car registration issued by the state of more than 4.6 million residents probably had their names, addresses and social security numbers exposed to the hackers.

Other personal information to which the cyber-attackers apparently had access were Louisianans’ driver’s license numbers, vehicle registration data, handicap placard information, birthdates, heights and eye colors, Edwards’s statement said.

The number of records involved is thought to be about 6 million, Louisiana’s homeland security and emergency preparedness director, Casey Tingle, told reporters Friday.

The Russia-linked extortion gang CI0p, which claimed credit for the recent hack, ...

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/16/louisiana-drivers-license-hack-cyber-attack

No-registration link: https://archive.is/D5YiI

[live love laugh]

1. Coming to a state near you soon.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Every person impacted by the inadvertent release of this personal information needs to

sue the state for appropriate safeguards, procedures to ensure the future safety of SSNs, etc., and make available these tools to state residents whose SSNs were compromised. If the state gathers this information from its' residents, it needs to ensure that this information is safe. I'm willing to bet that the state in fact, wasn't as safe as it should have been, and is at fault. I wonder if the state regulators thought that we didn't need to spend that money to safeguard SSNs, etc. and thus didn't. Heads should roll.

There needs to be a message sent to all who shepherd personal identifiable information and fail. The legislators who fail in this duty too, should be reprimanded too.