Haley: SC citizens get lifetime fraud resolution

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has negotiated a deal that will allow citizens affected by a hacker attack on state tax returns to get free credit fraud resolution for life.

Haley also said during a news conference Tuesday that the state has negotiated with credit monitoring agency Experian to limit South Carolina’s costs for a year’s worth of credit monitoring at $12 million.

Officials announced last week that up to 3.6 million returns from as far back as 1998 may have been compromised by the international hacker, who likely penetrated the Department of Revenue’s system a month before the breach was detected by the U.S. Secret Service.

Haley has repeatedly stressed that no one from the Revenue Department is to blame for the hacking incident.

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