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By: James | February 01, 2013
By Nate Stewart, WLTX news
Richland County, SC (WLTX) -- Three motions have been filed to dismiss the class-action lawsuit over the data breach at the Revenue Department.The lawsuit filed in October 2012, charges Gov. Haley, the former Director of the Revenue Department Jim Etter, the Department of State Information Technology, and the company Trustwave with failure to protect the citizens of South Carolina from the hacking that has taken place.
The motions, filed in the Fifth Judicial Circuit, request a judge dismiss the lawsuit because the three Defendants have immunity under the South Carolina Tort Claims Act.The motions also claim that the lawsuit should be thrown out since the data breach is the subject of an on-going invest...
Category: Hacking
Tags: Nikki Haley
By: James | November 16, 2012
Written by Tim Smith, Greenville Online
COLUMBIA - The director of the University of South Carolina's
Center for Information Assurance says the massive records breach at the state Department of Revenue could have been prevented.
Csilla Farkas, director of the Center for Information Assurance, which helps train students in cyber security, said she knows no more about the breach at the state Department of Revenue than anyone else listening to publicly released information. But she said if a breach has occurred it is because of a lack of adequate safeguards.
"This attack, I would say, is a representative example when policies, procedures, existing technologies and awareness were not playing together to provide adequate security," Farkas told Gre...
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