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The personal unemployment claims data of at least 1.4 million Washingtonians may have been stolen in a hack of software used by the state auditor\u2019s office, raising fears of identity theft and fraud amid an already bleak pandemic downturn.<\/p>\n

State Auditor Pat McCarthy said Monday the records \u2014 including Social Security numbers and banking information \u2014 were exposed during a December breach of Accellion, a software provider the auditor\u2019s office uses to transfer large computer files.<\/p>\n

In a head-slapping irony, the compromised data had been collected as part of the auditor\u2019s investigations into how the state Employment Security Department (ESD) lost $600 million to fraudulent unemployment claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The personal unemployment claims data of at least 1.4 million Washingtonians may have been stolen in a hack of software used by the state auditor\u2019s office, raising fears of identity theft and fraud amid an already bleak pandemic downturn. State Auditor Pat McCarthy said Monday the records \u2014 including Social Security numbers and banking information \u2014 were exposed during a December breach of Accellion, a software provider the auditor\u2019s office uses to transfer large computer files. In a head-slapping irony, the compromised data had been collected as part of the auditor\u2019s investigations into how the state Employment Security Department (ESD)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSeattle Times: Banking, Social Security info of more than 1.4 million people exposed in hack involving Washington state auditor - Karen Keiser Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/keiserarchive\/2021\/02\/01\/seattle-times-banking-social-security-info-of-more-than-1-4-million-people-exposed-in-hack-involving-washington-state-auditor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seattle Times: Banking, Social Security info of more than 1.4 million people exposed in hack involving Washington state auditor - Karen Keiser Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The personal unemployment claims data of at least 1.4 million Washingtonians may have been stolen in a hack of software used by the state auditor\u2019s office, raising fears of identity theft and fraud amid an already bleak pandemic downturn. 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