Data breach hits Department of Social Services credit card system
by Paul Karp from Technology | The Guardian on (#38TAA)
Exclusive: Data includes employees' names, user names, work phone numbers, work emails and system passwords
The Department of Social Services has written to 8,500 current and former employees warning them their personal data held by a contractor has been breached.
In letters sent in early November the department alerted the employees to "a data compromise relating to staff profiles within the department's credit card management system prior to 2016".
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