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.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/kansas-department-of-commerce
"id": "kan92271022",
"linkid": "kansas-department-of-commerce",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2017",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Government',
'location': 'Kansas, USA',
'name': 'Kansas Department of Commerce',
'type': 'Government Agency'}],
'attack_vector': 'Hacking',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': ['5 million Social Security '
'numbers',
'800,000 accounts'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Social Security numbers',
'Account information']},
'description': '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.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Social Security numbers',
'Account information']},
'response': {'law_enforcement_notified': ['FBI'],
'third_party_assistance': ['A private IT company']},
'title': 'Kansas Department of Commerce Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}