AP reports:
Oregon officials said Thursday that they plan to restructure information technology functions after software found an external third-party had gained access to a state network.
Gov. Kate Brown said in a statement that someone gained access to so-called metadata last week at the Department of Administrative Services, which handles technology for much of state government.
The hackers weren’t able to access to any personal identifying information, Brown said. But metadata, such as the sizes of data and the timestamps of messages, were compromised, said Kristen Grainger, Brown’s spokeswoman. Metadata is data about data.
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