what is a data breach? Our town’s entire personal info just leaked online and nobody’s telling us.
Local resident’s banking details, addresses, and even kids’ school records were exposed in a massive data breach at the county clerk’s office last week. This isn’t a techy problem—it’s a “someone forgot to lock the front door” problem. Common sense says you don’t leave sensitive files on an unsecured server, yet here we are. Taxpayers pay for this incompetence while our identities get sold to scammers. When will officials start using the same basic caution they expect from us?