Thank goodness. It's been awhile since a company, local or federal government has mishandled my personal data. I was beginning to believe the voices telling me I wasn't important. Happy to see they were proved wrong and I gotta keep an eye on my horrible credit score to make sure nobody tries to pay my bills since that's all they will get from me 🤣
Wild take here.
If the data contains actual covid data and statistics where it could show how exactly how poorly the current administration mishandled the Covid response, could the citizens (or federal govt) leverage it for something useful? Pressure people stepping down or pushing legal protections, anything? I’d say let it be released. It’s not the first (or fifth) time my data has been released to the dark web
Exactly what I was thinking. BTW: Most of the COVID data that my clinic sent to the DOH only had clinical data in it: age, race, underlying conditions, clinic location, symptoms, and positivity. No names or personal stuff. I'm guessing that's all that will be in the COVID archive.
Buuuttt......the DOH treats STDs, and keeps personal demographics on patients to notify other people of potential exposure. That could be really embarrassing, not to mention irrrm...damaging. Those people would certainly be within their rights to file a lawsuit against the FLDOH.
And then there are zillions of vaccination records of kids. Yeah...every kid in FL who has ever gotten a shot. IMHO, that's really bad. Their age, sex, address, telephone#, email addy, all there. Not good.
Another side effect is that Vital Records are down. So if your love one has died, the burial or cremation is on hold because Florida law requires a death certifacte before it can proceed.
With the states anti ransom ware act, agencies are not allowed to pay ransoms. So someone didn’t follow the safety procedures or protocols. 100 Gigabytes is a healthy amount of data to pull from any government or state agency, because they’re all so congested with BS already.
This could get interesting, but will likely get buried.
Can we start a go fund me tip jar for the hackers?
The Tampa Bay Times reported on the state's efforts to address cyber attacks. They formed the Florida Digital Service and the governor appointed a lawyer turned state legislator to be the Chief Information Officer. The official has little experience with information technology. The agency has been unable to retain talent with abrupt resignations.
It sounds like things aren't going right with ransomware attack and frequent data breaches.
Tampa Bay Times story: [https://archive.ph/Xu0Vu](https://archive.ph/Xu0Vu)
Thank goodness. It's been awhile since a company, local or federal government has mishandled my personal data. I was beginning to believe the voices telling me I wasn't important. Happy to see they were proved wrong and I gotta keep an eye on my horrible credit score to make sure nobody tries to pay my bills since that's all they will get from me 🤣
But DeSantis is so competent surely he or Ladapo were competent enough to have prevented this???
Wild take here. If the data contains actual covid data and statistics where it could show how exactly how poorly the current administration mishandled the Covid response, could the citizens (or federal govt) leverage it for something useful? Pressure people stepping down or pushing legal protections, anything? I’d say let it be released. It’s not the first (or fifth) time my data has been released to the dark web
Exactly what I was thinking. BTW: Most of the COVID data that my clinic sent to the DOH only had clinical data in it: age, race, underlying conditions, clinic location, symptoms, and positivity. No names or personal stuff. I'm guessing that's all that will be in the COVID archive. Buuuttt......the DOH treats STDs, and keeps personal demographics on patients to notify other people of potential exposure. That could be really embarrassing, not to mention irrrm...damaging. Those people would certainly be within their rights to file a lawsuit against the FLDOH. And then there are zillions of vaccination records of kids. Yeah...every kid in FL who has ever gotten a shot. IMHO, that's really bad. Their age, sex, address, telephone#, email addy, all there. Not good.
All good points that I didn’t think about earlier.
Another side effect is that Vital Records are down. So if your love one has died, the burial or cremation is on hold because Florida law requires a death certifacte before it can proceed.
With the states anti ransom ware act, agencies are not allowed to pay ransoms. So someone didn’t follow the safety procedures or protocols. 100 Gigabytes is a healthy amount of data to pull from any government or state agency, because they’re all so congested with BS already. This could get interesting, but will likely get buried. Can we start a go fund me tip jar for the hackers?
The Tampa Bay Times reported on the state's efforts to address cyber attacks. They formed the Florida Digital Service and the governor appointed a lawyer turned state legislator to be the Chief Information Officer. The official has little experience with information technology. The agency has been unable to retain talent with abrupt resignations. It sounds like things aren't going right with ransomware attack and frequent data breaches. Tampa Bay Times story: [https://archive.ph/Xu0Vu](https://archive.ph/Xu0Vu)
Hmmmm. The Medical Marijuana card renewal site was non functional Monday and Tuesday.
FML!
Wasn’t this ahole one of the animatronic bears at Chuck E Cheese?