Hillsborough County reports MOVEit related data breach, exposes 70,000
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Hillsborough County, Florida has notified more than 70,000 people that a global data breach may have put their personal information at risk.
The breach involved the MOVEit file transfer tool, a third-party service that was used by the Health Care Services and Aging Services departments of the county.
The exposed files contained protected health and personal information, including:
- names,
- Social Security numbers,
- dates of birth,
- home addresses,
- medical conditions,
- diagnoses and disabilities.
Hillsborough County files were not specifically targeted in the cyberattack, but the county was potentially affected as a customer of MOVEit, according to the news release.
It is unknown how many people might have had their health or identification information at risk, but the County mailed notification letters to 70,636 people informing them of the breach.
The county also notified the credit monitoring bureaus about all those potentially impacted by the data breaches as well as the Florida authorities.
