Attack on food assistance call centre in US state of Georgia disrupts benefit access
The call centre for SNAP, a food assistance programme in the US state of Georgia, was hit by a cyber-attack. About a month after the attack, some households were still unable to access their SNAP benefits.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Some SNAP households unable to access benefits for about a month
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack on the call centre
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Georgia state officials confirmed a cyber-attack on the SNAP call centre.
- About a month after the attack, some households were still having trouble accessing SNAP benefits.
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