Arizona court system hack leads to theft of personal data belonging to 1.3 million Americans
- A successful phishing attack at the Arizona Supreme Court led to data compromise
- More than a million people are now thought to be affected
- The court's operations were not disrupted
The Arizona Supreme Court has suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive data on more than a million people after an employee allegedly “clicked a malicious link in an email”, which led to the compromise of information on 1.3 million people.
Information is still scarce on the issue, as we don’t know if that malicious link resulted in the victim’s device being infected with an infostealer, or if they were asked to log into a bogus portal, allowing the threat actors to access their account directly.
It was confirmed that the threat actors copied information on 1.3 million people with unpaid court fees, fines and restitution payments for traffic and criminal violations dating back 30 years. They also nabbed...
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