Hackers linked to Chinese government stole millions in Covid benefits, Secret Service says

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4. The problem was probably because they hacked into existing or newly-developed state tracking systems

One of issues that happened after Congress appropriated money for the various pandemic-related funding measures, was that many states had no (data) system to track the incoming funds and outlays or they had a system but it needed some type of modification to expand the scope (along with a capacity increase due to what would be new account access).

And with probably few doing in-house programming anymore, that meant either mods to existing contracts for existing systems or actually going out with RFIs and RFPs to have some vendor offer to sell a turnkey product to do this or build something new.

So that whole process in either situation, left the states vulnerable to all kinds of malfeasance as they were modifying or developing, testing, and updating their data systems.