St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Officials proposed thanking a reporter for uncovering a data vulnerability on a state website before wrongfully accusing him of "hacking."

The idea that viewing a site’s source code amounts to hacking is, to put it gently, ridiculous.

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Date Filed: July 2, 2021 Update: On April 6, 2022, the…