COLUMBIA, S.C. — Roughly 100,000 South Carolina residents may soon receive a notification that some of their information was impacted by a data breach, according to the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs. (SCDCA).
The state agency shared a draft letter from 700Credit announcing that the names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of some of its customers may have been copied from its web application without authorization.
700Credit, which reportedly provides services to dealerships across the U.S., said it became aware of suspicious activity within the application in late October and began investigating it with assistance from third-party computer forensic specialists…