So an article came across my eyes that begins with the words “Minnesota DHS.”
The full title? “Minnesota DHS Reports Access-Related Data Breach.”
Now anyone reading that article over the weekend was probably very confused, since the death of Alex Pretti isn’t exactly a DATA breach.
And, of course, Minnesota doesn’t have a “department of homeland security.”
It does, however, have a Department of Human Services…and THAT was what was breached.
“A single user inappropriately accessed private data within the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) ecosystem, potentially impacting 303,965 individuals, officials report.”
This was not a hack per se, but a case in which a legitimate person accessed something they shouldn’t have accessed. Certainly a breach, and the person’s access was terminated.
But nobody died.
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