Sean Adams reports:
York County officials have released a warning to residents that a “data privacy event” might have put their information at risk.
County officials shared that “in early 2025, the county was notified of a possible data security incident” involving a vendor working with them.
An employee of that vendor had been hired to develop software for York County Civil Courts, and was provided “with certain York County Civil Courts data to use for software development and testing purposes,” according to the announcement.
“The employee subsequently left the vendor’s employment without returning this data,” the press release read.
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Although the county’s press release states there is no evidence of misuse, the types of information involved includes contact information, Social Security numbers, driver’s license or state ID card numbers, financial and medical information. They have referred the matter to law enforcement.
The software vendor was not named, and there was no explanation of why real data was being used for development or testing.