OLYMPIA Reacting to the unemployment-claims data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 1 million Washingtonians, lawmakers are looking to beef up the state s cybersecurity practices.
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Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy says her office was not notified about a vulnerability in Accellion s file transfer product.
A data breach of a Washington state auditor s system exposed 1.4 million unemployment claimants’ records. The breach involved exploiting a flaw in Accellion s file transfer product, called File Transfer Appliance, and the state’s auditor says the office was never notified of the vulnerability and that a fix was available, the Seattle Times reports.
Organizations in New Zealand and Australia have also been affected by breaches tied to exploits of the vulnerability. But Accellion says it issued a patch in December 2020 and alerted all affected customers.
A Washington agency examining how the state fell victim to massive unemployment fraud last year said Monday that files on 1.6 million claims that it obtained for its investigation have been exposed by a data breach meaning people who already lost work due the pandemic might have to add identity theft to their difficulties.
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