Remember SC Hacked? Over four million South Carolina businesses and individuals' financial information stolen by hackers armed with dastardly intentions and brilliant computer skills.

On Wednesday 14 November, Governor Haley ordered enhanced security measures for the sixteen state agencies (including the Dept. of Revenue) that form her Cabinet. Their computer networks will be monitored by the Division of State Information Technology, with four employees assigned to 24/7 monitoring duties.

On Friday 26 October the news broke that the South Carolina Department of Revenue's tax records dating back to 1998 had been hacked by overseas cybercriminals, giving them access to some 3.8 million tax records, as well as 378,000 credit and debit card numbers. The security breach was all the more alarming because the Social Security numbers in the records were not encrypted. The following week state officials revealed that the tax records of up to 657,000 businesses had also been compromised. Security experts agree that this was the worst case of data theft committed against a state government in the nation's history.

On October 26, 2012, the South Carolina Department of Revenue announced that millions of social security numbers and thousands of credit and debit card numbers had been exposed as the result of a cyber-attack.  Anyone who filed a tax return in SC since 1998 may be at risk.  While most teens have not filed tax returns, they may have been listed as dependents on their parent or guardian’s filings and their personal information may have been compromised.