Tax Administation of Jamaica hacked

[Arch_Angel]

Tax officials reveal system breach by online hacker

Jamaican tax officials have confirmed that one of their computer systems was hacked, but have given the assurance that sensitive information concerning taxpayers was not compromised.

The admission by the Tax Administration of Jamaica (TAJ) came yesterday, days after The Gleaner discovered a hacker boasting on a social media network that he had accessed the TAJ's database and had leaked the information to other networks.

"(User name withheld) has just leaked a database from an attack on the Tax Administration of Jamaica (http://www.jrs.gov.jm)," the person believed to be the hacker wrote in an online post.

Read more: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead5.html

*yawn* Not surprised. Regular thing for our government sites to be low on security and outdated.

[nevintech]

I guess em never thought someone would think of hackin it, but its claimed that it was only a retired corporate website with public info was hacked -

[traze2k4]

wow ok then...and since it was posted well there might be more follow up attacks before they can implement any changes to their system security...if they're gonna make any changes -_-

[ruption]

Lol...... Sad much....