The Ohio Lottery is sending data breach notification letters to over 538,000 individuals affected by a cyberattack that hit the organization's systems on Christmas Eve.
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filing with the Office of Maine's Attorney General revealed that the incident impacted 538,959 individuals. The attackers gained access to the affected people's names, Social Security numbers, and other personal identifiers.
"On or about December 24, 2023, the Ohio Lottery detected unauthorized access to our internal office network as a result of a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the exposure of the data we maintain. The incident did not impact the gaming network," the Ohio Lottery said.
"After an extensive forensic investigation and our manual document review, we learned on April 5, 2024 that certain files containing your personal information was subject to unauthorized access."
Ohio Lottery says that no evidence was found that the stolen information had been used for fraud. Still, it provides free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services to all potentially impacted individuals "out of an abundance of caution."
