Arizona court hack steals personal data of over 1 million people
The Arizona court system in the US was hit by a cyber-attack in which the personal information of more than 1 million people was stolen. The attacker copied two sets of data, and the affected material included records on foster children and protective order information. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Arizona Supreme Court
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal data of more than 1 million people; foster child records and protective order information
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack on the court system
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It became known that the attacker had copied two sets of data from the Arizona court system.
- It became known that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the cyber-attack on the courts.
- It emerged that the attacker had accessed records related to foster children.
- It became known that the affected material also included protective order information.
- The scale of the stolen personal data was confirmed to be more than 1 million people.
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