Apparently, right clicking on a site and pressing 'view source' counts as tampering. 🤓 engineering
This all began when the reporter took a look at the"view source" menu item that lets you see the
and discovered that the source code contained the Social Security numbers of educators. Being a diligent and respectful citizen, he then proceeded to inform the state about the dangerous glitch.wrote an expose on the incident.
The analogy here is not quite correct because the journalist did not abuse the vulnerability and instead was the reason the issue was resolved, he went about handling it how a security researcher likely would: with . The news outlet referenced an FBI agent that stated that the incident"is not an actual network intrusion."
Instead, the state's database was"misconfigured," which"allowed open source tools to be used to query data that should not be public." This feeling was echoed by President and Publisher Ian Caso who explicitly said that no network intrusion had occurred and that the outlet's reporter should have been thanked for the discovery rather than treated as a
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