Public School and Education Employee Retirement System of Missouri

In Public Schools and Education, Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri suffered from a data breach incident after a system of employee’s email account was accessed by an unauthorized individual.

Over 128,000 active participants as well as 100,000 retirees and their dependents are served by the pension program.

The email account was promptly disabled, preventing the unauthorized party from accessing the company's internal operating system.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/technology-education-missouri-9c73d7b5f0d8b2fd5148c5afda19bac9

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/psrspeers

"id": "pub932281122",
"linkid": "psrspeers",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "09/2021",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

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                                               '100,000 retirees and their '
                                               'dependents'],
                        'industry': 'Public Schools and Education',
                        'location': 'Missouri',
                        'name': 'Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri',
                        'type': 'Public Sector'}],
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                'breach incident after a system of employee’s email account '
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 'impact': {'systems_affected': ['Email Account']},
 'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Email Account'},
 'response': {'containment_measures': ['Email account disabled']},
 'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized Individual',
 'title': 'Data Breach at Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Email Account Compromise'}