from the what-happens-when-you-rush-things dept.
Almost 8,000 could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach:
Almost 8,000 business owners who applied for a loan from the Small Business Administration may have had their personal information exposed to other applicants, the SBA admitted on Tuesday.
[...] A Trump administration official described the problem to CNBC:
The official said that in order to access other business owners' information, small business applicants must have been in the loan application portal. If the user attempted to hit the page back button, he or she may have seen information that belonged to another business owner, not their own.
The SBA says it discovered the flaw on March 25 and notified affected users. One victim posted a copy last Friday of a paper letter she received about the breach. The letter stated that personally identifiable information—including Social Security numbers, addresses, dates of birth, and financial data—may have been exposed. The letter said that, as of last week, there was no sign yet of the data being misused.
The SBA says that it immediately disabled the portion of its website that was exposing applicant data, fixed the problem, and re-launched the website. Affected businesses have been offered a year of free credit monitoring.
Related:
SBA reveals potential data breach impacting 8,000 emergency business loan applicants
SBA says data breach affected nearly 8,000 small businesses
Small Business Administration reports data breach in disaster loan website
A data leak is just the latest example of the Small Business Administration's struggles with shaky IT, and experts fear the worst could be yet to come
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @06:28PM (3 children)
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APK
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 25 2020, @07:02PM
So how does whining on at least three different websites do that?
I think you don't get how proof works. Well, see you in two weeks, Buttercup.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @07:12PM
You keep this nonsense up, and I'll stop killing shit eating dogs when I see them.
(Score: 2) by Kitsune008 on Sunday April 26 2020, @07:02AM
We will NOT quit bullying, harassing, teasing, taunting, and belittling you.
Why, you ask? Because your comments are so amusing to peruse.
Such a delicate snowflake! You explode with such imaginative, but impotent wrath, it's totally amazing and entertaining!
BTW, I can hardly wait for the next installment of "As the apkSnowflake Sizzles"!
(Score: 2) by Username on Saturday April 25 2020, @06:33PM
From my understanding, all the loan(effectively a grant)s went to any corporation that were the biggest liability to the banks issuing it. IE if they went under, the bank would go too. So millions of dollars went to mega corporations with thousands of employees, not to small local businesses.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 25 2020, @07:13PM (1 child)
Which is more serious? The SBA being breached, or Nintendo? https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/04/25/032233 [soylentnews.org]
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday April 25 2020, @07:24PM
Definitely, Nintendo. SBA is irrelevant to upcoming Newest World Disorder.
Rust programming language offends both my Intelligence and my Spirit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @07:22PM (1 child)
Considering SSN as some kinda secret number is like so ... boomer? :)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @01:07PM
RIP MDC.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Tuesday April 28 2020, @07:32AM
Guess we dodged a bullet on this one by not putting nearly enough funding toward small businesses; most of this data will be worthless, as the bulk of these companies will be insolvent in a matter of weeks, if not already.
50% of the economy got 12.5% of the stimulus package...did anyone NOT see this coming?
Oh well, at least the publicly owned portion of the economy is largely intact...enough to be technically in a new bull market amidst an economy melting down at a record pace.
Just another reminder that the stock market isn't the economy, and it certainly sure as hell isn't a scorecard worth evaluating a government by.