Hackers rather than an inside job are being blamed for an attack on an Illinois state agency's server that left thousands of property market workers potentially exposed to identity theft.
Attacks on the systems of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, carried out in January but not discovered until last month, are reckoned to have exposed the details of 300,000 real estate agents and mortgage brokers. The Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on around a quarter of the 1.2m people registered by the agency might have been exposed. State Police and the FBI are investigating, the Chicago Sun Times reports.
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