Illinois Department of Human Services privacy breach exposes more than 4,500 Social Security numbers

Hackers access personal information of Illinois Department of Human Services customers, employees

Customers of the Illinois Department of Public Health may have had personal information exposed in a hack of an employee's email. IDHS said it experienced a "privacy breach" through a phishing campaign that was sent to employee emails April 25. Hackers gained access to files that included Social Security numbers of 4,701 customers and three employees, IDHS said. Hackers also accessed public assistance information for more than 1.1 million custom…

Illinois Department of Human Services privacy breach exposes more than 4,500 Social Security numbers – WGNTV (Chicago)

Alongside the Social Security numbers, public assistance account information for 1,118,993 customers, which did not include any SSNs, was also accessed.

Illinois data breach exposes 1M records, 4,700 Social Security numbers

A phishing attack on the Illinois Department of Human Services exposed personal data of over 1 million people, including 4,700 Social Security numbers.

Illinois Department of Human Services privacy breach exposes more than 4,500 Social Security numbers

CHICAGO — The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) announced Friday that it suffered a privacy breach earlier this year, which exposed the information of thousands of customers. According to the IDHS, the incident occurred on April 25 after an outside entity, through a phishing campaign, was able to gain access to the accounts of several employees and the files associated with the accounts, which included the Social Security numbers (SSN…

Hackers access personal information of Illinois Department of Human Services clients, employees

The Illinois Department of Human Services said it experienced a “privacy breach” through a phishing campaign that was sent to employee emails April 25. Hackers gained access to files that included Social Security numbers of 4,701 customers and three employees, IDHS said. Hackers also accessed public assistance information for more than 1.1 million customers. That information included names, public assistance account number,s some combination o…

Illinois Department of Human Services phishing attack affected more than 1.1M public assistance clients

Their substitute notice, as published on Effingham Radio: Springfield, IL-(Effingham Radio)- Pursuant to the requirements of the Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), 815 ILCS 530/12, the Illinois Departme…