{"id":187053,"date":"2024-04-09T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hackers-stole-340000-social-security-numbers-from-government-consulting-firm"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:24:04","slug":"hackers-stole-340000-social-security-numbers-from-government-consulting-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/hackers-stole-340000-social-security-numbers-from-government-consulting-firm","title":{"rendered":"Hackers stole 340,000 Social Security numbers from government consulting firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-stole-340000-social-security-numbers-from-government-consulting-firm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GMA provides economic and litigation support to companies and U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, bringing civil litigation. According to its data breach notice, GMA told affected individuals that their personal information \u201cwas obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice (\u201cDOJ\u201d) as part of a civil litigation matter\u201d supported by GMA.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons and target of the DOJ\u2019s civil litigation are not known. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>GMA said that individuals notified of the data breach are \u201cnot the subject of this investigation or the associated litigation matters,\u201d and that the cyberattack \u201cdoes not impact your current Medicare benefits or coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GMA provides economic and litigation support to companies and U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, bringing civil litigation. According to its data breach notice, GMA told affected individuals that their personal information \u201cwas obtained by the U.S. Department of Justice (\u201cDOJ\u201d) as part of a civil litigation matter\u201d supported by GMA. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-economics","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}