Have you ever viewed the page source of a web page in your browser?

If so, depending on what you discovered, you could be a hacker subject to criminal prosecution, according to Missouri's Republican governor, Mike
Parson.

It seems that a Missouri government site inadvertently exposed the names and social security numbers of educators. Although the information was not
visible on the web page itself, it could be accessed by viewing the page's
HTML source code.

Reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered the security breach and contacted the government to let them know of the problem but now, Gov. Parson intends "to bring to justice anyone who hacked our system and anyone who aided or encouraged him to do so -- in accordance with what
Missouri law allows AND requires."

Analysis of the emails between Parson's spokespeople shows references to
Renaud changing from "individual" to "hacker" over time, as well as alleging that the "hacker" took "eight separate steps" to get the sensitive data. One
of those "eight separate steps" was to open a new tab in Google Chrome.

The security breach has since been quietly fixed, but Gov. Parson is making
the prosecution of Renaud a major focus of his re-election campaign.

Jeff.

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