JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Gov. Parson has issued a warning to potential hackers.
Stay away from Missouri.
“We want to be clear, this hack on DESE was more than a simple ‘right click’” he said.
“The facts are that an individual accessed source code and then went a step further to convert and decode that data in order to obtain Missouri teachers’ personal information. This information was not freely available and was intentionally decoded. By the actor’s own admission, the data had to be taken through eight separate steps in order to generate a SSN.”
The governor pointed out that under Missouri law, a person commits the offense of tampering with computer data if he or she knowingly and without authorization accesses, takes, and examines personal information.
Section 569.095, RSMo.
