HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – Over 57,000 unemployment accounts have been connected to a Florida Department of Economic Opportunity data breach.
According to the DEO, it learned of the breach with its online unemployment benefit system, called CONNECT, on July 16.
“Information contained in the claimant account may have been accessed, including the following: social security number, driver’s license number, bank account numbers, claim information, and other personal details, such as address, phone number, and date of birth,” the department said in a release. “In addition, the malicious actors may have acquired the account PIN that claimants use to access their CONNECT account.”