Government-Aided Phishing 222
Anonymous writes "A Florida county is posting the Social Security numbers, bank account info and other sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of current and former residents on its public Web site, Computerworld is reporting. A county official says there's no problem, since the postings are in compliance with state law requiring public availability of records." From the article: "The breach stems from the county's failure to redact or remove sensitive data from images of public documents such as property records and family court documents, Hogman said. Included in the documents that are publicly available are dates of birth and Social Security numbers of minors, images of signatures. passport numbers, green card details and bank account information."
Re:next news story (Score:3, Funny)
I think you answered your own question.
FLORIDA (Score:5, Funny)
C'mon, the least Slashdot could do... (Score:3, Funny)
Why am I not surprised. (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe not Phishing but... (Score:2, Funny)
I don't know if this could be considered "phishing" in the sense that I'm trying to lure people into giving me their information. It's right out there for all to see without going through all the bothersome effort of setting up a fake website and sending out the e-mails! Just some browsing, and then setting up the bank transfers and charging purchases!
And to think of all the effort that's being wasted on setting up phishing schemes, when Broward County will do all the work instead!
Re:Florida: comic relief for a stressed-out nation (Score:3, Funny)
<Homer>Florida? But that's America's wang!</Homer>
Re:let's open some bank accounts (Score:2, Funny)
*sigh*
No way (Score:5, Funny)
OK it had to be said (Score:4, Funny)
*ducks*
Re:Wanted Posters (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but were you really tempted to steal the identity of someone the police were looking for?
Re:next news story (Score:3, Funny)
Speaking of attracting undesireables, I appear to have picked up a stalker, nyahahah! Eh any ACs or GuloGulo (959533) that respond to this message, everyone remember the name, this one is truly half baked.
Hah! Stalkers? Gimme a break. Try carrying around my sig and see how many disgusting uncircumcised Europeans or "I was robbed at birth!" wackos hit me up.
I hope they all get phimosis. Savages.
Re:It's sorta obvious if you think about it.. (Score:3, Funny)
See, when a