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

"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"

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                        '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',
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