Washington State Suffers a Data Breach That Potentially Affects 1.6 Million People The Washington state government has suffered a large data breach involving unemployment claims, potentially exposing data on more than 1.6 million people, officials admitted Monday... The data appears to have been compromised through Accellion, a third-party vendor that was contracting with the state auditor’s office. In mid-December, the company suffered a cyberattack via a zero-day vulnerability in its legacy file transfer application. The data exposed is quite sensitive, and includes names, bank account and routing information, social security numbers, place of employment, and driver’s license numbers..." https://gizmodo.com/washington-state-suffers-a-data-breach-that-potentially-1846176467
