https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/11\/usps-data-breach.html<\/p>\n
US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year<\/p>\n
Even our postal service is susceptible to weak APIs…? Yeah even the government has weaknesses. What might make this worse is the cyber security researcher notified USPS of the vulnerability over a year ago and nothing was done. 60 Million USPS users data was exposed for over a year. USPS did finally do something about it and when they went to action it only took them two days. Two. 48 hours before they fixed it required a journalist contacting USPS on behalf of the researcher to initiate a response. OH, and what a silly response it is:<\/p>\n
“We currently have no information that this vulnerability was leveraged to exploit customer records.”
\n“Out of an abundance of caution, the Postal Service is further investigating to ensure that anyone who may have sought to access our systems inappropriately is pursued to the fullest extent of the law.”<\/p>\n
in other words, \u201cwe\u2019re good\u201d because we don\u2019t know of any breaches.<\/p>\n
NICE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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