DEW Website Defaced, No Personal Information Compromised

Authorities are investigating the website defacement of a South Carolina agency. 

WLTX reported that an image on the Department of Employment and Workforce's website said the site had been hacked Saturday evening. 

A spokesperson for DEW told the station a "malicious user" defaced the website.

The website was taken offline to remove the defacement.

No personal information was compromised. 

A website defacement is an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of the site or a webpage.

Earlier this year, the Department of Revenue's database was hacked, exposing the personal information of millions of taxpayers and 700,000 businesses.

Read more at WLTX.