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More details emerge on insider breach at FL Department of Economic Opportunity

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Dissent

More details have emerged on a case reported on this site last week in which a state employee accessed a state database and acquired identity information that she allegedly then sold to others.  News4Jax reports:

According to the Department of Economic Opportunity, one of their employees managed to access the Florida Department of Children and Families‘ Florida ACCESS system.

He (sic) then obtained the names and social security numbers of more than 200,000 people in the DCF system.

Read more on News4Jax, but note that I have not found any other reference to this impacting more than 200,000 people. It’s possible it did, but the court filings and U.S. Attorney’s release talk about 200. Perhaps New4Jax has a seen a statement or obtained information from the DEO that I have not obtained yet. (Update: News-Press.com is also reporting the number as 200,000).

According to court filings examined by DataBreaches.net, Eutsay’s theft of benefits applicants’ personal information was discovered on May 8, 2014 during a search of someone else’s home on an unrelated matter. Law enforcement discovered a printout with the identity information of over 200 people. The printout had been downloaded from the DCF’s ACCESS system on April 18, 2014, and reflected Eutsay’s name and system identification number for the ACCESS System.

According to the affidavit supporting the complaint, signed by Mathew Broadhurst, Special Agent,OLRFI, Eutsay subsequently admitted to law enforcement that she had improperly accessed the database on at least 10 occasions since February, 2014, and had been given $5,000.00 in exchange for the stolen identity information.

As manager of CareerSource South Florida, Eutsay’s job position did not require her to access any personal information on benefits applicants, so all database accesses were outside the scope of her professional duties.

Eutsay was charged with Use of One or More Unauthorized Access Devices to Obtain Anything of Value Aggregating $1,000 Or More, Possession of Fifteen or More Unauthorized Access Devices, Computer Fraud, and three counts of Aggravated Identity Theft.

She is scheduled for trial on June 15, 2015.

Eutstay’s case is linked to United States v. Kyron Jonathon Nedd, also previously noted on this site.

I’ve been unable to find any press release or notice from DEO, and have e-mailed them to request one. This post will be updated if I receive their statement.

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