Breach at Georgia Department of Human Services exposes highly sensitive information

https://www.cbs46.com/news/cyber-attack-targets-georgia-department-of-human-services/article_57f9749e-0a72-11eb-a724-3b34ced6f18f.html

Exploit: Employee Email Account Compromise
Georgia Department of Human Services: State Agency

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Risk to Business: 1.414 = Extreme A massive breach at the Georgia Department of Human Services has left the highly sensitive data of adults and children in Child Protective Services (CPS) cases of the DHS Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS). The employee email account compromise ocurred in May 2020. Georgia DHS secured the account quickly, but damage included

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Individual Risk: 1.202 = Extreme Extremely sensitive information about parens, children, and families that has contact with DFCS was stolen in this attack, including full names of children involved in those cases and household members, relationship to the child receiving services, county of residence, DFCS case numbers, DFCS identification numbers, date of birth, age, number of times contacted by DFCS, an identifier of whether face-to-face contact was medically appropriate, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers, Medicaid identification numbers, Medicaid medical insurance identification numbers, medical provider names and appointment dates, plus some psychological reports, counseling notes, medical diagnoses, or substance abuse information and bank information.

Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: Not only does a data breach leave a huge mess of expensive cleanup behind, in many industries like healthcare, a data breach can also mean your organization will be paying big regulatory penalties and fines too.

Risk Levels:
1 - 1.5 = Extreme Risk
1.51 - 2.49 = Severe Risk
2.5 - 3 = Moderate Risk

*The risk score is calculated using a formula that considers a wide range of factors related to the assessed breach.


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