[1] The Department is responsible for licensing and taxing all manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of alcoholic liquors.
The Department is also responsible for enforcing the Bingo Act of 1996 which affects manufacturers, distributors, organizations and promoters.
Over the next two months, the attacker remotely compiled and downloaded data such as employee password hashes and the tax records dating from 1998 to 2011.
On October 10, the United States Secret Service notified the SC Department of Revenue of a possible breach.
[4] As of early 2013, this is the largest ever cyberattack on a US state government, with 3.8 million unencrypted Social Security numbers (equivalent to over 78% of South Carolina's population) stolen along with private and business-related financial information.