Dark Reading reports on the “Top Government Data Breaches of 2012,” including the breach of 3.3 million unencrypted bank account numbers and 3.8 million tax returns at the South Carolina Department of Revenue; the loss of sensitive payroll information on approximately 700,000 individuals at the California Department of Social Services, and the loss of more than 780,000 Utah citizens’ personal information when hackers broke into a server maintained by the Utah Department of Technology Services this spring. An opinion piece in The Salt Lake Tribune says a proposed bill that aims to prevent similar breaches in Utah would “do little, if anything.” Meanwhile, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has alerted 1,500 patients of a breach.
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