The website vulnerability disclosure that led Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to accuse a journalist of “hacking” the state last year stemmed from a flaw that had been around since 2011, according to a police report published Monday.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol released details of its investigation into the disclosure — which had been supplied to state officials last October by St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Josh Renaud — finding that a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website had been inadvertently exposing teachers and other school employees’ personal identifying information, including Social Security numbers, since it was launched a decade ago.
