The Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon Management Information System (WOMIS) recently discovered a vulnerability that compromised the private information of over 850,000 registrants. While the system was taken down and patched before all 1.9 million jobseekers’ accounts were compromised, there are still many affected by this breach. Much of the information stored is personal info used in filling out job applications such as names, addresses, social security numbers, and so on.
So far there are no reports that any of the data has been used, but all the affected accounts have been requested to change their passwords and other security information. The Department also offered identity theft protection to the affected jobseekers if requested. Read more about this story here.