Missouri Independent: “When Gov. Mike Parson last week angrily called for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to be prosecuted for uncovering security flaws on a state agency website he said the newspaper’s actions could ‘cost Missouri taxpayers up to $50 million.’ That amount, two Democrats on the House Budget Committee said Tuesday, is an estimate for providing credit monitoring to protect against misuse of personal data and a call center to answer questions from educators whose private data may have been exposed. And, state Rep. Peter Merideth said, the estimate is not a very good one. ‘He pulled it straight out of his ass,’ Merideth said in an interview Tuesday.”