Florida's unemployment site hacked, exposing personal data on 58,000 claimants

[Zorro]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers and claim information might have been exposed.

Hackers targeting Florida’s unemployment website potentially stole the personal data, including Social Security numbers, of nearly 58,000 people.

The Department of Economic Opportunity said Friday that hackers targeted the site, known as CONNECT, between April 27 and July 16 of this year, breaching the personal information of unemployment recipients.

The hackers targeted 57,920 claimant accounts, the department said, and they might have obtained those people’s Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, bank account numbers, claim information and other personal details, such as addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.

They might also have stolen users’ PIN numbers they use to access their accounts, the department said.


Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/07/23/floridas-unemployment-site-hacked-exposing-personal-data-on-58000-claimants/

[monkeyman1]

1. good thing rep. Scott built that systems ! deathsentence inherited that one !!

Quality governor 's ya'll got down there.

[Tiger8]

7. If Crooked Rick Scott built the system...

...you know it was built by some corrupt, incompetent company who donated large sums to Crooked's campaign.

It wouldn't surprise me that the company who built the system also hacked it - and sold the 58,000 Names/SSN/Birthdates - with Crooked Rick Scott himself getting a cut.

[monkeyman1]

8. nothing surprises me about ol' cue ball scott !!

[twodogsbarking]

2. Let's put all of our information on the internet and see what happens.

It is stupid but that's what we do.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. Looks like a job for Cyber Ninjas!!! ...Or were they already on it???

[ancianita]

4. Right? Collecting data for the next election cycles, so thuglicans know who to harass & intimidate.

[Bayard]

5. How big of them

Go after people who are already broke.

[csziggy]

6. Considering the number of bogus unemployment claims

I bet the hackers will try to file for unemployment using that info. Maybe not soon, but eventually.