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Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology Chief information and security officer Adam Ford said this is a huge leap from where IDES was before the pandemic. "...I think that it is a new growth for all of government to start interacting with identity risk across the board as we are doing more and more interactions online."
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
And for some of the rest of the story:
Illinois Policy Institute.
Illinois Unemployment Accounts Repeatedly Hijacked by Thieves.
by Patrick Andriesen.
August 6, 2022.
“One industry expert told Robinson’s committee the solution for a majority of IDES’ woes is relatively cheap and simple: a security protocol called multi-factor authentication.
‘Account takeover is 10-year-old stuff,’ said Haywood Talcove, an executive with LexisNexis Risk Solutions who testified before the cybersecurity committee.
‘It shouldn’t be happening anywhere.
There’s no excuse for it.’”
http://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-unemployment-accounts-repeatedly-hijacked-by-thieves