Adams County Government

Adams County Government

Adams County officials are removing the county clerk from office, for being suspect of a data breach.

She’s suspected in manipulating the county computer system, which may have led to a security breach that affected more than 250,000 people.

An unauthorized access to confidential computer records, checking accounts, deleted records, Health and Human Services building may have been done by the suspected.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/wi-adams-county-clerk-suspected-in-connection-with-data-breach/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/adams-county

"id": "ada13281122",
"linkid": "adams-county",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "08/2018",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 250000,
                        'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'name': 'Adams County',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 250000,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['confidential computer records',
                                              'checking accounts',
                                              'deleted records',
                                              'Health and Human Services '
                                              'building']},
 'description': 'Adams County officials are removing the county clerk from '
                'office, for being suspect of a data breach. She’s suspected '
                'in manipulating the county computer system, which may have '
                'led to a security breach that affected more than 250,000 '
                'people. An unauthorized access to confidential computer '
                'records, checking accounts, deleted records, Health and Human '
                'Services building may have been done by the suspected.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['confidential computer records',
                                 'checking accounts',
                                 'deleted records',
                                 'Health and Human Services building']},
 'threat_actor': 'County Clerk',
 'title': 'Adams County Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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