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Hackers Target Your Personal Info in DMV Database

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Dissent

Steven Dial reports from South Carolina:

Hackers are trying to steal personal information from the  DMV database and most of them are from another country.

“It is cause for alarm for us and our information technology folks,” said JR Sanderson.

Since January hackers have tried to get into the DMV database more than 100 times.

“The vast majority of those that came from foreign countries specifically came from China,” said Sanderson.

Read more on WLTX.

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