Social EngineeringGovernmentGovernmentPhishingCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEmploymentMediumContained

Charleston County Human Resources

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Aug 6, 2019

Filed

Aug 22, 2019

To disclose

16 days

Affected

824state residents only

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Charleston County Human Resources →

Charleston County Human Resources notified affected individuals on August 12, 2019, of an inadvertent unauthorized disclosure of personal identifying information via email on August 6, 2019. The breach involved names, DOBs, SSNs, hire dates, and healthcare eligibility data. The incident was caused by a phishing email targeting an employee. The County offered one year of free credit monitoring and notified law enforcement.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 16 days

Aug 6, 2019

Discovered

Aug 22, 2019

Filed

vs. sector median

9 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed824 affectedView incident

Name: Charleston County
norm: charleston county
Domain: charlestoncounty.org

Name: Charleston County Human Resources
norm: charleston county human resources
Industry: Governmentllm

Discovered: Aug 6, 2019
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Aug 12, 2019
Affected individuals: 824state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEmployment
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: phishing_link

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Advised the three major credit reporting agencies about this incident
Offer one year of free credit monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 16 days(16 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2019/CharlestonCounty.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Aug 22, 2019
Raw hash: a9d1f0faad3375e9248710a143442de7b3244774b642374055d30723fcf8bebd

Reporting entityCharleston County

Victim entityCharleston County Human Resources

Incidentdiscovered Aug 6, 2019

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov