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News for the Carolinas
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
The South Carolina Senate has tentatively approved a bill meant to increase oversight of public agencies' computer systems following last fall's massive breach at the Department of Revenue.
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a massive security breach at South Carolina's tax collection agency.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
State officials say a three-year effort to evaluate and upgrade computer security systems at state agencies should begin in March.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
The president of the South Carolina Bankers Association says his group has created a way to detect fraud on customers' bank accounts following last fall's hacking of taxpayers' filings with the Department of Revenue.
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
The S.C. Department of Revenue's deputy director acknowledges his agency was notified in August of a computer security breach, but the response clearly wasn't adequate since a hacker stole millions of taxpayers' personal data a month later.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
A representative from the company that monitors credit for South Carolinians affected by a data breach says its services are worth about $150 million.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Keep an eye on your mailbox. You could soon get a letter letting you know if your personal information has been stolen.
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Friday, December 07, 2012
A judge is allowing the state Revenue Department to notify banks and credit unions of the 3.3 million bank account numbers compromised when someone hacked department tax files.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
A Lowcountry lawmaker says an investigation of hacked state tax returns should be done by an independent organization, not politicians.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The director of the state Revenue Department says his agency did not have a computer security officer for nearly a year before a hacker stole the personal data of millions of taxpayers.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is heading out of state for the first time since announcing that a hacker stole Social Security numbers from millions of taxpayers.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Gov. Nikki Haley is skipping the annual Republican Governors Association conference to remain in South Carolina as officials grapple with a massive security breach at the state's tax collection agency.
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Friday, November 09, 2012
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman announced Friday he has appointed a special subcommittee to "examine the ramifications of a historic security breach of security at the S. C. Department of Revenue."
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
The hacker who reportedly accessed millions of South Carolina tax returns apparently breached state databases via two different paths.
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Friday, November 02, 2012
Horry County business owners are taking advantage of free credit monitoring, one week after millions of tax forms were hacked from the South Carolina Department of Revenue. Among them, Brent Justice, owner of Motionworks Multimedia.
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