Allegheny County says data breach may have exposed personal information
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Allegheny County is warning about a data breach.
The county says it's an issue with a popular file-transfer tool that could have put personal information into the hands of hackers.
The county says it, along with 22 million people worldwide, has been targeted by a global cyber security breach. The breach gave a group of cybercriminals access to personal information like driver's license numbers and Social Security numbers.
"On June 1, we got notification from one of our software vendors of an exploitable bug in their software," said Allegheny County chief information officer Jason Ditzenberger.
Ditzenberger said the county was affected by a global cybersecurity hack impacting the popular file-transfer tool called MOVEit. The breach, he says, gave cybercriminals access to county files on May 28-29.
"It could be a number of items such as a driver's license number, potentially a Social Security number, maybe a voter ID number. It's different for everybody depending on their relationship with the county," Ditzenberger said.
The hackers claim they were only interested in business data and said they deleted the other files from the county. But Ditzenberger says the county isn't taking their word for it and out of an abundance of caution is asking those who are concerned to reach out to the county's dedicated call center.
"We ask that you do take this seriously, call our hotline, take advantage of the complimentary credit monitoring," Ditzenberger said.
You can see the full details on the county's website.