Oregon Taxpayers Exposed to Identity Theft

Identities belonging to over 2,200 Oregon taxpayers were stolen by keylogging software installed on a state PC.

The breach was caused by a former Oregon Department of Revenue employee who was downloading pornographic material on the work PC.

The identities included Social Security numbers, names, and addresses, and were transmitted to an unknown hacker by the keylogger, said the Department of Revenue in an online FAQ. According to the DOR, its anti-malware filters didn’t pick up the Trojan because it was so new that anti-virus vendors hadn’t yet created detecting signatures.

More information about the incident can be found on the Oregon DOR site.

Source: InformationWeek

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Written by MCruz on June 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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