Scott County, Iowa

Scott County, Iowa suffered a data theft incident after an unauthorized party accessed its employee email account.

The hacker sent unauthorized messages including the information related to clients, employees of Scott County, and other individuals who received healthcare treatment or services facilitated by Scott County to internal and external users from the employee account

Scott County investigated the incident with external cyber security experts and mailed the notice letters to the affected individuals.

Source: https://www.scottcountyiowa.gov/administration/post/notice-data-privacy-event

"id": "SCO03219522",
"linkid": "scott-county-iowa",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2021",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"