The Charleston County Sheriffs suffered from a data breach incident that exposed 800 Charleston County employees because of an inadvertent email that was sent out by a county Human Resources employee.
According to county spokesman Shawn Smetana, that email contained the names, dates of birth, social security numbers, gender, salaries, and hire dates of 824 current and former county employees.
No other personal identifying or confidential information such as bank account numbers were released.
The employee who sent the email by accident will be subject to a disciplinary process.
County staff provided the affected employees with a free year of credit monitoring through Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion.
"id": "CHA0110423",
"linkid": "charleston-county-sheriff-s-office",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "08/2019",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"