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What happened to Tulsa’s CIO could happen to you

Tulsa’s chief information officer, Tom Golliver, was placed on paid administrative leave Monday after it was revealed that the city’s website hadn’t been hacked after all. A third-party security firm that was hired to do periodic, unannounced tests of city’s networks for vulnerabilities used an “unfamiliar testing procedure” last month. City officials didn’t realize that the apparent breach was caused by the security firm, Utah-based SecurityMetrics, until after 90,000 letters had been sent to people who had applied for city jobs or made crime reports.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2135323/what-happened-to-tulsa-s-cio-could-happen-to-you.html

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