Missouri Gov. Mike Parson launched a criminal investigation of a reporter who flagged a state website that exposed 100K+ Social-Security numbers for teachers and other state employees. Parson called the reporter a hacker, vowed to sic the courts on the individual and said the state would try to recoup incident-response costs that might cost taxpayers as much as $50 million Parson said the reporter decoded the HTML source code in reality they simply used the feature built into every web browser since the dawn of the internet.”]
Source: https://threatpost.com/missouri-prosecute-hacker-data-leak/175501/