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The document lays out the play-by-play of how the law enforcement officers found out about the flaw, and how they went about investigating the case. One of the things the investigators found is that the website in question had been vulnerable for ten years, “and the fact the data was only encoded and not encrypted had never been noticed before.”Gov. Parson’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said in a statement sent via email that “the accusations against our reporter were unfounded and made to deflect embarrassment for the state’s failures and for political purposes.”“Mr. Renaud did not access anything that was not publicly available, nor was he in a place he should not have been.”
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