Indiana Contact Tracing Data Breached

guest · Aug 17, 2021

Indiana Contact Tracing Data Breached
August 17, 2021
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/indiana-contact-tracing-data/

Hundreds of thousands of Indiana residents are being notified of a data breach involving responses collected via the Hoosier State's COVID-19 online contact tracing survey.

A software misconfiguration that left information exposed to the public was discovered by an unnamed vulnerability-hunting company. The company informed state officials of the breach on July 2 after they were able to access and download the data.
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The Indiana Office of Technology and the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) said immediate steps were taken to correct the misconfiguration and re-secure the records that had been accessed.

“We take the security and integrity of our data very seriously,” said Tracy Barnes, chief information officer for the state, in a statement.
The company that discovered the breach returned the sensitive data on August 4 and signed a certificate of destruction to confirm that the information had been permanently deleted.

State health commissioner Dr. Kris Box said they believe the impact of the data breach will be minimal owing to the nature of the information that was accessed.
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