The news only gets worse… This morning, officials in the South Carolina Department of Revenue data breech investigation are saying that the number of tax payer social security numbers that were reaped in the hacking event is much higher than initially thought.
They have expanded it to an additional 200,000 SSNs, taking the grand total up to an estimated 3.8 million individual and 657 thousand businesses.
How much higher will those numbers get? Time will tell.
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