From: Financial Times
By Hannah Kuchler
Cyber criminals on the hunt for poorly protected confidential data are circumventing the US federal government and targeting state and regional authorities on the basis that they have fewer resources to defend themselves.
Social security numbers, driving licence numbers and home addresses are among the data kept by government now that access to local services is moving increasingly online.
More than two-thirds of US government data breaches were at non-federal agencies in 2012, the latest year that data were available from the US computer emergency response team.
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