Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Thursday, April 16, 2015 Data center security flaws IURPVWLOOQRW¿[HG Shelby said the Department of Administrative Services agreed with all the auditors’ SALEM — Three years af- recommendations, which called WHU VWDWH DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG VH- for the agency to purchase new curity weaknesses at Oregon’s WRROVDVZHOODVGH¿QHDQGGRF- main data center in Salem, the ument its security processes. Hackers recently accessed VWDWHKDV\HWWR¿[VRPHRIWKH data at the center, Gov. Kate problems. The vulnerabilities were out- Brown revealed last month, but lined in a secret March 2012 let- Shelby said that breach was un- ter to Michael Jordan, who was related to the security problems at the time director of the De- DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG +RZHYHU partment of Administrative Ser- Shelby said one of the of the vices, which manages the data suggestions auditors laid out warehouse. The facility stores in the letter would have helped data for multiple state agencies. IT staff to more quickly assess The extent of the problem which types of data attackers remains unclear, because the accessed. The state data center had agency declined to release the letter in response to a public not yet installed centralized log records request from the EO management software, which Media Group/Pamplin Media would have allowed employ- Group Capital Bureau. Auditors ees to more quickly assess the are in the midst of another pe- scope of the data breach, Shel- riodic review of security at the by said. ³