South Carolina Department of Revenue lost several million Social Security numbers and credit card numbers. Governor Nikki Haley said in a press conference earlier this week that the SSNs of millions of South Carolina residents weren t encrypted at the time they were stolen because it s very complicated The term, complicated, can be used in a number of different ways and have several meanings depending upon the context, including difficult to understand, difficult to unwind or Facebook-like deployment of the term. But the technology is sufficiently advanced at this point that it’s not a nightmarish undertaking.
Source: https://threatpost.com/encryption-its-complicated-110112/77177/