Florida State Tax Website Bug Exposed Filers' Data (techcrunch.com) 12
A security flaw on the Florida Department of Revenue website exposed at least hundreds of taxpayers' Social Security numbers and bank account numbers, a security researcher found. From a report: Kamran Mohsin said the security flaw -- now fixed -- allowed him, or anyone else who was logged in to the state's business tax registration website, to access, modify and delete the personal data of business owners whose information is on file with the state's tax authority by modifying the part of the web address that contains the taxpayers' application number. Mohsin said that application numbers are sequential, allowing anyone to enumerate taxpayers' information by incrementing the application number by a single digit. Mohsin said there were more than 713,000 applications in the system, which the department did not dispute when reached for comment.
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Florida Man Sysadmin.
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Isn't that what all sysadmins/programmers/webmasters do?
Really, you are so misguided with your comment that I was (sadly) prompted to reply, shame on you: Haters going to hate.
Meanwhile, I suspect the sysadmins/programmers/webmasters will make things right.
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Yea, I have to agree with drainbramage here. OP was really nonsensical in this context, and painfully obviously a political shot.
Maybe OP is drunk? I dunno. It happens. I know I do it sometimes.
Florida State Taxes? (Score:1)
Florida State Tax Website Bug Exposed Filers' Data
Huh? DeSatntis' freedom paradise taxes people? That guy wouldn't know freedom if it jumped up and bit him in the balls. Why hasn't he doubled down on the success of the Kansas Experiment and outright abolished the violent theft of taxation? You'd think that's obvious to any real conservative.
All Tax returns should be public (Score:1)
Good⦠hopefully all tax returns are made public in the future.
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No income tax in Florida = no tax returns to make public.
Over-simplifying, of course. The story was about a database of business owners, who do pay taxes. But it was low-hanging fruit.
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Does that include the owner of Mar a Lago?
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They’re on Hunter’s laptop along with Hillary’s emails.