True," this individual did not have permission to do what they did. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack. The state of Missouri says someone found a way to access sensitive records about teachers. Thanks for joining us at four. I'm Carolina Cruz. For Carolyn and Brad, those education records include sensitive information about certification and social security numbers. KCTV 5's Nathan Vickers explains who found the security flaw and what it means for governments and any entity handling sensitive data. It was journalists who discovered those vulnerabilities, including more than a hundred thousand social security numbers. Information that was publicly available but buried in code. On October 12th, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DECI) was made aware of a vulnerable onsite on one of its websites. Missouri Governor Mike Person called a press conference this morning to address what he called a hack of the Department of Education's website. Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number of those specific educators. It turned out to be a journalist from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who had found a security file within a database on the site. "It'll pop up as far as the source of the website," Burton Kelso, a local technology expert and consultant, described it as a surprisingly simple process akin to right-clicking in any browser and selecting "view source code," which can sometimes show hidden data. "What's supposed to happen when you design a website is that you kind of disguise this coding so that cybercriminals can't look it to see how this website is built and also to see if there's any personal information that's on the website," he said. Person criticized the...
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