Specific recomendations for South Carolina DOR Cyber Attack Victims

Many people are understandably concerned about their identify information having been stolen in the South Carolina Department of Revenue cyber attack.  This is a serious risk for everyone concerned but it is not cause for panic.

The first thing every victim should do in this situation is take a deep breath.  Protecting your identity is going to be a long distance race not a sprint.  This situation will play out over the coming months or even years, not days.  Based on the information released so far, there is not any action that you can take over the weekend that is going to resolve this issue for you.  It is theoretically possible that those of us who have been exposed to this risk will spend the rest of our lives dealing with it.  So whether or not you take action this weekend may have limited impact on the ultimate outcome.  It is also, theoretically possible, that none of this will have any impact on your credit information at all.  At this point we simply don’t have enough information to determine if we are going to be personally affected.  I am recommending to my clients that we wait and see what information is released by the authorities on Monday and Tuesday of this week before we decide how to proceed.

If you feel you must take some action immediately here is a link to the specific recommendations issued by the Department of Revenue.

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And, as always, please feel free to contact Tax On Wheels, LLC at 803 732-4288 if we may be of assistance to you.