Hack of Ernst & Young's external support system exposes client tax data
Ernst & Young's external IT support ticketing platform was hacked, exposing clients' personal information including tax and financial data and Social Security numbers. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach and launched an investigation, and a class action lawsuit was later filed. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack and threatened to release the stolen data.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Ernst & Young
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Client personal information including tax and financial data and Social Security numbers
- Cause / method
- Hack of an external IT support ticketing platform
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNational ID number
Timeline
- Ernst & Young disclosed a data breach caused by a hack of an external support system and launched an investigation.
- It came to light that the exposed information included Social Security numbers.
- A class action lawsuit was filed against Ernst & Young over the data breach.
- ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the Ernst & Young data breach.
- ShinyHunters threatened to release the stolen data on July 31.
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