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Hackers who breached a Kansas Department of Commerce data system used by multiple states gained access to more than 5.5 million Social Security Numbers and put the agency on the hook to pay for credit monitoring services for all victims.

The number of SSNs exposed across the 10 states whose data was accessed has not been previously reported. The Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio, obtained the information through an open records request.

More than half a million of the SSNs were from Kansas, according to the Department of Commerce.

The data is from websites that help connect people to jobs, such as Kansasworks.com, where members of the public seeking employment can post their resumes and search job openings. Kansas was managing data for 16 states at the time of the hack, but not all were affected.

In addition to the 5.5 million personal user accounts that included SSNs, about 805,000 more accounts that did not contain SSNs were also exposed.

Arkansas 597,374
Arizona 896,370
Delaware 236,134
Idaho 170,517
Kansas 563,568
Maine 283,449
Oklahoma 430,679
Vermont 183,153
Alabama 1,393,109
Illinois 807,450

*Total: 5,561,803

More: http://kcur.org/post/hackers-kansas-system-accessed-social-security-numbers-millions-10-states#stream/0

http://www.ibtimes.com/kansas-data-breach-exposes-more-5-million-social-security-numbers-2569024

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