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Majority Of South Carolinians’ Social Security Numbers Exposed In Hack

3.6 million state residents and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a data breach. The SSNs were stored unencrypted, and while most of the credit cards were encrypted. Security experts say it was most likely a SQL injection or other vulnerability in the Web-based application. South Carolina governor calls the attack “unprecedented” and says it was a different situation than an April data breach that exposed 230,000 South Carolina residents’ Medicare and Medicaid records. Residents will receive one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/majority-of-south-carolinians-social-security-numbers-exposed-in-hack

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