Showing posts with label OregonSOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OregonSOS. Show all posts

Friday, May 2, 2014

Oregon Secretary of State website breach cost taxpayers $177,000!!

The February breach of the Oregon Secretary of State's website cost taxpayers about $176,662, including about $4,500 for meals and lodging to allow employees to work through a snowstorm. The breach was detected Feb. 4 and knocked the agency's elections and business registry databases offline for nearly three weeks.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/04/oreg...rpt-1

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Oregon Secretary of State Silent on Security Breach of Campaign Finance Website

Two weeks after the state’s campaign finance website was hacked, state officials are refusing comment about what information was compromised. The site, ORESTAR, has been shut down since Feb. 5, when Secretary of State Kate Brown announced it had possibly been hacked and that candidates’ bank account information was among the data accessed. The breach is now the subject of a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe.
www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20140220/NEWS/302...reach