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Taipei employees’ financial data leaked

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Dissent

Sean Lin reports:

An information security breach led to financial data concerning at least 2,000 Taipei City Government employees being leaked on Tuesday night, with city officials ascribing the incident to outdated and vulnerable data management software.

The information, which was leaked to Yahoo Taiwan’s search engine, included the names, pay grades, salaries and bank accounts of employees at the Department of Transportation, the Construction Management Office, the Department of Civil Servant Development and the Hydraulic Engineering Office.

“The [data management] program has not been updated for 15 years.

Read more on Taipei Times.

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