Texas exposed 1.8 million residents’ data for almost 3 years

The personal information of 1.8 million Texas residents who filed insurance claims with the Texas Department of Insurance was exposed and publicly accessible for almost three years, according to a recently published state audit.
News of the security lapse was first disclosed by the department in March, almost three months months after it first became aware of the exposed data in January during the course of a preplanned data management audit.
The department said that it became aware of a security issue with the web application that manages workers’ compensation information and took the s

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