Re: Accidental?
> that it centralizes a great deal of personal information
That might be true, but there is no reason I can think of to make that centralized database publicly available on internet. Some government bodies might need to access it but I'm pretty sure they have their own, somewhat better secured accesses.
I don't think this was a conspiracy, it feels like a genuine garden variety IT blunder to me. Just incompetent people led by incompetent managers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
