An apparent security breach has resulted in the loss of personal data on more than 77,000 Alaskan residents.

"Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Thursday that there has been a 'massive security breach' reaching the highest levels of state government," writes DarkReading's Tim Wilson.

"While current and former state employees are calling to find out if their data is among the records lost, neither the state government nor the contractor that held the records -- PricewaterhouseCoopers -- knows where the data went," Wilson writes.

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