On Thursday, Florida’s embattled unemployment claims system suffered a data breach. According to the Department of Economic Opportunity(DEO), the reemployment assistance claims website had a great data breach impacting an undisclosed number of users associated with the company.
The Florida DEO statement came on Thursday :
“We have notified individuals that were part of a data security incident associated with Reemployment Assistance claims. This issue was addressed within 1 hour after we became aware of the incident. While the incident was handled within 1 hour, in an abundance of caution, we are making available identity protection services at no charge to affected individuals, and we have also advised them to report any unauthorized activity on their financial accounts. At this time, we have not received any reports of malicious activity.”
The Exact what time the data has been breached is still unknown. The main issue was the candidates who are associated with the company their data are unsafe and at risk.
They still have to put an eye on every transaction done by their bank account because one of the candidates speaks if the entire money has been stolen from me when I don’t have any money.
Many of the candidates are still not working from March.although many of them receive unemployment funding but what if they have the credit to pay off mortgage and car payments.
According to the DEO, They have already reached 98 people who were affected by the data breach. The Department will be offering free identity theft protection.
Meanwhile, the department has put notice and say people to keep an eye on every transaction from the bank.
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