Sebastian County Government

Sebastian County suffered an email security data breach in March 2017.

Approximately 200 employees' banking account information and routing codes were linked in an email sent by a payroll administrator to a group of county workers.

They took preventive steps to stop this type of incident in the future.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/email-security-breach-involving-county-employees-bank-accounts-in-sebastian-county/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/sebastian-county-government

"id": "seb22523822",
"linkid": "sebastian-county-government",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "03/2017",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Public Administration',
                        'location': 'Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA',
                        'name': 'Sebastian County',
                        'type': 'Government'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '200',
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Banking account information',
                                              'Routing codes']},
 'date_detected': 'March 2017',
 'description': 'Sebastian County suffered an email security data breach in '
                "March 2017. Approximately 200 employees' banking account "
                'information and routing codes were linked in an email sent by '
                'a payroll administrator to a group of county workers. They '
                'took preventive steps to stop this type of incident in the '
                'future.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Banking account information',
                                 'Routing codes']},
 'post_incident_analysis': {'corrective_actions': ['Preventive steps to stop '
                                                   'this type of incident in '
                                                   'the future'],
                            'root_causes': ['Human Error']},
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Preventive steps to stop this type of '
                                       'incident in the future']},
 'title': 'Sebastian County Email Security Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human Error'}