Speeding fine data in WA vulnerable to hacking

Sensitive personal data has been shared by WA Police in an insecure way which opens it up to being hacked, a report finds.

The names, addresses and offences of people paying traffic fines may have been hacked after it was shared by WA Police “in an insecure manner”, a report has found.

The Auditor-General Colin Murphy’s ninth systems report found people’s confidential infringement data was being shared and better protection is needed, after reviewing into the state’s information systems.

“(The third party) vendor prints and mails infringement notices to offenders using information provided to them over the internet in plain text via a simple file transfer method,” the report said.

“This increases the risk of a hacker intercepting sensitive information.

“WA Police is in the process of evaluating secure file transfers to see if it could use this solution to improve information security.”

The report into five state agencies also found flaws in the Corruption and Crime Commission’s Case Management and Intelligence System (CMIS) that it uses to manage serious misconduct allegations and investigations…

MORE: Speeding fine data in WA vulnerable to hacking – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)