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Tulsa IT Director On Administrative Leave After False Alarm Website ‘Hack’

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dissent

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Dee Duren reports:

The City of Tulsa announced that no personal information was compromised in a recent website “hack.” In fact, what they thought was a security breach was actually a test by a third-party firm hired by the City’s Internet technology department.

The incident cost the City about $20,000 for a mass mailing that warned about 90,000 customers their personal information might have been accessed in what turned out to be a false alarm.

Chief Information Officer Tom Golliver has been placed on administrative leave with pay, the city announced Monday evening in a second release.

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1 thought on “Tulsa IT Director On Administrative Leave After False Alarm Website ‘Hack’”

  1. Helen Lawson says:
    October 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    Perfect illustration of why you need a data breach response plan in place — that includes a procedure for conducting forensics *before* you contact potential victims.

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