By Chung Li-hua and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Control Yuan on Friday last week urged the Ministry of Civil Service to tighten Internet security after an investigation into how the personal information of civil servants was leaked online. The Control Yuan said in a report that the leak began in June 2012, but was not discovered until last year. As an A-level security information unit, the failure of the ministry to comply with government endeavors to tighten information security, as well as its delayed inclusion of civil service data under the Internet Security Management System, placed the personal information of civil servants at risk, the report said. The report said that the ministry being classed as “medium” security was an overestimation, which the center concurred with. It called on the ministry to initiate changes, foster in-house information security personnel instead of relying on subcontractors and more strictly adhere to the Internet Security Management System.

Source: Taipei Times March 01, 2020 15:56 UTC