Kentucky Officials Slow to Respond to System Data Breach

Governing: The fired former director of Kentucky’s unemployment office told a panel of lawmakers Tuesday that officials at the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet failed to quickly respond to reports of a data breach in the state’s unemployment system in April.

Muncie McNamara — a non-merit staffer who donated to and volunteered for Beshear’s campaign and was hired to run the unemployment office in December — was fired in May after months of backlogs in the state’s unemployment system as a record number of Kentuckians filed jobless claims because of COVID-19.

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