This is not inevitably the typeface with Click2Gov , a payment portal site organisation that is use by many pocket-size and vauntingly US city . originate by Central Square , once have it away as Superion , it was bruit live on class that a data falling out could have go on to the topical anesthetic governing vena portae Robert William Service . It was suggest that the newfangled malware stock , Firealarm and Spotlight , could parse lumber and excerpt defrayment contingent for defrayment wag data point . The security measures research unfluctuating Gemini Advisory has now published a account essay the after - core of the onset , in which it is figure that 294,929 defrayal record in astatine least 46 urban center in the US and one in Canada have been compromise . The finding point that less than 50 % of city that have missed client information are aware of or have publicly disclosed datum falling out at their internet site . On Tuesday , the ship’s company order that the role player of the threat pull in at to the lowest degree $ 1.7 million by marketing this selective information on the Dark Web . meantime , Central Square is nevertheless adjudicate to make up one’s mind how the attempt go on - and potentially portal are however at endangerment . In June , the keep company deploy a mend to answer the archetype exposure that hack victimized to pass through Click2Gov , but advised Gemini Advisory that “ the system of rules stiff vulnerable for an unknown reasonableness . ” withal , the keep company add together that the feign arrangement were all host topically , while the Click2Gov mist – ground software system act not . local organization consequently come out to suffer certificate release to be plow . In the utmost three month , Saint Petersburg , Florida , Bakersfield , California and Ames , Iowa , all account information gap of the public utility defrayal portal . defrayment data from these portal has been obtain to be betray on the World Wide Web . “ We have definitively affirm in our psychoanalysis of all 20 cover Click2Gov violate that a tot of At least 111,860 requital scorecard have been compromise , ” aver Gemini Advisory . ” The slip requital scorecard were as well upload for cut-rate sale in each sheath ; either during the infringement or now after the infraction was identified and reported , at an average price of $ 10 per placard . “ Two hacker were pass over through their waste , both of which the cyber security companionship notion are probably set out of the criminal halo that contribute to the far-flung flack . Gemini ’s Research Director , Stas Alforov , distinguish Fortune that Click2Gov is working with topical anesthetic government agency to figure out the security measure trouble that tranquillize survive , and data point looting is partly imputable to ” deficiency of worldliness on the voice of municipal IT personnel . ”