Kansas Department of Commerce

Kansas Department of Commerce

Kansas Department of Commerce suffered from a security breach incident that exposed 5 million Social Security numbers after their system gets hacked.

The exposed information includes more than 800,000 accounts that did not contain Social Security numbers.

The FBI and a private IT company investigated the incident and took preventive steps.

Source: https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/343028-kansas-breach-exposed-over-5-million-social-security-numbers-report/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/kansas-department-of-commerce

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"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2017",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
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