Expert Commentary: Data Breach In State’s New PUA Unemployment System Exposes Some Claimants’ Personal Info

All indications are that this was an accidental software issue, but such incidents can be the cause of massive breaches of trust as well as data. Given the critical need for data security for businesses and people in stressed economic times, organizations establishing new services should really take a look at more modern, snap-in data tokenization technology to modernize their approach to data collection. When storing critically sensitive data, security and privacy must always be at the front of the discussion. While the issue in this particular breach was reportedly rectified in an hour, that is still long enough for dangerous criminals to steal troves of valuable personal information and leverage it for their own monetary gain - either by selling it on the dark web or conducting identity fraud. No matter what the reason is behind this particular data exposure, this incident surely points out that any kind of data could be at risk and at any given time. Therefore, more must be done to consider data protection and privacy at the earliest point of entry into databases, files, and other stored areas, as to minimise exposures of all sizes  Read Less