By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:46 p.m.
COLUMBIA — A bill aimed at strengthening cyber-security across state government may be dead for the year, but legislators...
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:42 p.m.
COLUMBIA — A Republican state senator criticized Tuesday how the Department of Revenue paid...
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:30 p.m.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers voted Wednesday to pursue a multi-year contract for...
- By SEANNA ADCOXAssociated Press
- Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:33 p.m.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s tax collection agency is working to restore its...
More than 1.4 million South Carolina taxpayers signed up for free credit monitoring and identity theft protection by the deadline...
Sunday is the deadline to get a free year of identity theft protection and credit monitoring, but millions of eligible South...
COLUMBIA — A panel of state senators advanced a wide-ranging cybersecurity bill Tuesday that...
As the deadline nears for South Carolina residents to sign up for a free year of credit monitoring and identity-theft protection,...
By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press
- Friday, March 1, 2013 11:47 p.m.
COLUMBIA — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit over a massive security breach at South...
COLUMBIA — The Medical University of South Carolina wants to opt out of information security guidelines that a new state...
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Tuesday, February 12, 2013 11:52 p.m.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina is moving in the right direction on cybersecurity following the...
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Revenue’s former chief information officer Thursday claimed partial...
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Saturday, February 2, 2013 11:47 p.m.
COLUMBIA — Taxpayer concerns about last fall’s hacking of a South Carolina state agency are expected to lead to...
- By SEANNA ADCOXAssociated Press
- Saturday, February 2, 2013 10:57 a.m.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Taxpayer concerns about last fall’s hacking of a South Carolina state agency are expected to lead to...
- By SEANNA ADCOXAssociated Press
- Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:15 a.m.
COLUMBIA — A three-year effort to evaluate and upgrade computer security systems at state...
COLUMBIA — Initial skirmishes are playing out in the class-action
Letters informing thousands of Lowcountry taxpayers that they are among those whose information was “hacked” have...
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Saturday, January 5, 2013 1:59 p.m.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina legislators say they’re willing to spend whatever it takes to prevent another massive security...
The S.C. Department of Revenue has mailed letters to more than 600,000 state residents and 760,000 non-residents informing them...
- By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press
- Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:54 p.m.
COLUMBIA — The Department of Revenue was more concerned with keeping employees from accessing news, sports and social media...
COLUMBIA — The recent defacement of the state workforce agency’s website is evidence that South Carolina is now a prime target...
- Associated Press
- Friday, December 21, 2012 11:55 p.m.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina taxpayers have three more months to sign up for a state-paid credit monitoring service following a...
COLUMBIA — The credit-monitoring firm providing South Carolina taxpayers a year of services for $12 million following the...
COLUMBIA — A cybersecurity expert hired by the state in the aftermath of a massive breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue told...
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Revenue received approval Wednesday to take out a more than $20 million loan to pay costs...
- Associated Press
- Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:39 a.m.
COLUMBIA — A state agency continues to block public access to notices on its website as it works to improve its computer security.
The S.C. Department of Revenue has received judicial approval to release the 3.3 million bank account numbers compromised in the...
- Friday, December 7, 2012 12:00 a.m.
Another Statehouse panel will investigate the major breach of taxpayer data at the S.C. Department of Revenue.
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:14 a.m.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina could have two people overseeing agencies’ cybersecurity as part of an effort to centralize...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley’s administration will not publicly release a previously undisclosed, more-detailed report...
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Saturday, December 1, 2012 12:18 a.m.
COLUMBIA — Experian is notifying South Carolina parents they can begin signing up to have their children’s credit monitored, Gov.
- Staff report
- Friday, November 30, 2012 5:52 p.m.
As promised, South Carolina taxpayers with children who signed up for the state-sponsored Experian credit monitoring have begun...
More than a month after a hacker made off with millions of South Carolina tax records, no one seems sure how much of that highly...
Democratic state legislators held coordinated press conferences Thursday to call for another audit of the S.C. Department of...
- By BRUCE SMITH
Associated Press
- Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:35 p.m.
NORTH CHARLESTON -- Democratic lawmakers want an independent investigation of
COLUMBIA — A massive breach of the S.C. Department of Revenue that has cost state taxpayers more than $14 million and counting...
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Revenue has gone without a cybersecurity expert for more than a year, the agency’s out-going...
COLUMBIA — A law firm representing the state in the aftermath of a massive cyber breach now says no competitors were contacted...
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:08 a.m.
COLUMBIA— Gov. Nikki Haley is heading out of state for the first time since announcing that a computer hacker stole Social...
COLUMBIA — With one click, hackers likely were able to have their way with an S.C. Department of Revenue database that contained...
As the investigation into the hack into the S.C. Department of Revenue progressed, some of Gov. Nikki Haley’s public statements...
- Associated Press
- Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:12 a.m.
A report from computer security firm Mandiant provides a timeline of the cyber-attack on South Carolina’s Revenue agency:
COLUMBIA — South Carolina officials reached a $12 million agreement with credit-monitoring firm Experian outside of the normal...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley is requiring the 16 agencies under her control to implement new security measures after the massive...
Gov. Nikki Haley has issued an executive order requiring all cabinet-level state agencies to use a computer monitoring system...
COLUMBIA — Another South Carolina Cabinet agency’s experience with credit monitoring firm Experian helped the company land a $12...
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:22 a.m.
COLUMBIA, — Gov. Nikki Haley is skipping the annual Republican Governors Association conference to remain in South Carolina as...
COLUMBIA — International hackers could cost taxpayers and S.C. businesses a combined $360 million if the thieves are able to...
ISLE OF PALMS — Gov. Nikki Haley beamed from behind the dais as a ballroom full of business leaders welcomed her to their...
COLUMBIA — The chairman of a Senate committee said Friday that recent testimony by an official in Gov. Nikki Haley’s...
After years of punishing budget cuts, South Carolina’s Department of Consumer Affairs is struggling to meet the needs of...
COLUMBIA — A new state Senate committee will look into the massive breach of an S.C. Department of Revenue database.
- Thursday, November 8, 2012 12:24 a.m.
BY STEPHEN LARGEN AND GLENN SMITH
COLUMBIA — The hacker who landed a gold mine of S.C. taxpayer information by breaching a state database exploited two specific...
COLUMBIA — The S.C. Department of Revenue hired a communications firm for $160,000 after a cyberattack involving South Carolina...
COLUMBIA — The state and a cybersecurity company acted negligently in allowing a state database to be hacked and then failing to...
COLUMBIA — A former state senator has added a pair of defendants to a lawsuit against Gov. Nikki Haley and the S.C. Department of...
Seething in the wake of a cyberattack that put millions of South Carolinians at risk, Gov. Nikki Haley told the world she wanted...
- Sunday, November 4, 2012 12:33 a.m.
It's been just nine days since the public was informed that hackers stole taxpayer's personal and financial information from...
Last year the Internal Revenue Service processed about 1.5 million fraudulent tax returns, a federal audit found, costing...
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Saturday, November 3, 2012 10:48 a.m.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday she was a victim of identity theft about a decade ago, explaining her push to get...
In a nation where hackers steal personal data from computer systems on a near-daily basis, the cyberattack on the South Carolina...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has repeatedly said nothing could have been done to prevent a hacker from stealing Social Security...
D’Shonda Edmondson never left Charleston County Wednesday, so she knows it wasn’t her who racked up a $700 tab on her...
When Michael Burkhold Jr. heard last week that a hack into the South Carolina Department of Revenue had exposed him to potential...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley wants her Cabinet agencies to get involved in outreach to South Carolina residents affected by the...
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has repeatedly said nothing could have been done to prevent a hacker from stealing Social Security...
- By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press
- Thursday, November 1, 2012 9:32 p.m.
COLUMBIA — A credit monitoring service offered to taxpayers after a massive security breach at South Carolina’s tax collection...
- By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press
- Thursday, November 1, 2012 9:32 p.m.
COLUMBIA — One lawsuit already has been filed against South Carolina’s revenue department over a hacking scandal that could...
Wendell Gilliard has been getting the same question over and over for the past week:
State officials have offered updates with new details every day since the security breach was announced. The Post and Courier has...
It's a bad time to be living in South Carolina if you value your privacy. A hacker struck the state Department of Revenue and...
Charleston attorney Carolyn Blue spent nine months straightening out her credit after thieves swiped her purse, stole her...
COLUMBIA — As many as 657,000 South Carolina businesses had information in a hacked state database, Gov. Nikki Haley said...
COlUMBIA — A former state senator from Spartanburg has filed the first class-action lawsuit against Gov. Nikki Haley and the S.C.
State leaders announced credit protection soon will be offered for the possible 657,000 businesses that also might have had their...
- staff report
- Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:21 p.m.
Local nonprofit Family Services Inc. will be hosting a free event Thursday evening to teach folks how to avoid becoming a victim...
The hacking of the Department of Revenue’s computer system and the state’s response are
COLUMBIA — A hacker who gained access to South Carolinians’ Social Security numbers and credit card information also uncovered...
Charleston attorney Carolyn Blue spent nine months straightening out her credit after thieves swiped her purse, stole her...
The man who supervised the state Department of Revenue’s computer system resigned less than three weeks before officials...
Hackers steal personal data from computer systems on a near-daily basis, but South Carolina’s Department of Revenue data
COLUMBIA — The frustration in Judith Goldsmith's voice builds the more she talks about the South Carolina computer hacking...
Everyone who lives in South Carolina should assume hackers have their Social Security numbers and possibly credit or debit card...
Gov. Nikki Haley held a press conference Monday morning with State Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel and Department of...
- Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:37 a.m.
Who’s eligible for the identity theft protection and credit monitoring services being offered through Experian?
Gov. Nikki Haley said today state officials don’t know whose information has been compromised by a massive security breach of...
- By CLIF LeBLANC
cleblanc@thestate.com
- Monday, October 29, 2012 10:03 a.m.
As some South Carolina taxpayers, fearing their tax records have been hacked, complain about difficulties in getting access to...
- Sunday, October 28, 2012 1:50 a.m.
Following are some of the reactions to the news that 3.6 million Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit card numbers were...
A bombshell hit the state Friday:
The personal information of millions of South Carolinians is at risk after an international hacker got into the state Department...
- Staff reports
- Saturday, October 27, 2012 11:41 a.m.
COLUMBIA — About 3.6 million South Carolina taxpayers’ Social Security numbers and 387,000 credit and debit card numbers have...
