New York State benefit cards hacked
40,00 jobless, food stamp recipients affected; bank delay in reporting breach
By Rick Karlin
Published 9:24 pm, Thursday, January 2, 2014
Approximately 40,000 welfare, food stamp and unemployment recipients were told this month that their electronic benefit card information may have been viewed by hackers.
There’s no evidence that anyone actually suffered a loss from the electronic intrusion, but officials are wondering why the major bank that administers the cards, J.P. Morgan Chase, took nearly three months to tell them about the breach.
The potential breach occurred between July 17 and Sept. 17.
It involved an estimated 465,000 people nationwide after unencrypted personal data for cash card holders showed up on a site maintained by the bank for its UCard cash card system.
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