It's another great day in Nikki Haley's South Carolina

The State:

As many as 657,000 S.C. businesses had their tax information stolen in the massive security breach at the state Department of Revenue that also claimed the records of up to 3.6 million people, Gov. Nikki Haley said Wednesday.

Since Friday, when they announced the hacking publicly, state officials had said that they did not think business records were exposed. 

But Mandiant, a consultant hired by the S.C. Department of Revenue, found Tuesday night that business tax records had been compromised, too, Haley said. The discovery came after a two-hour Senate Finance Committee hearing, where Revenue Department director James Etter pointedly was asked whether business records also had been taken by the hackers. 

State officials still are learning more about the data theft, which is affecting four times as many people as all previous breaches combined in the state over the past seven years. “It is honestly something I feel I find out by the day,” Haley said.

Mrs. Governor Haley says she has no plans to discipline anyone in her employ, and changes the subject to one of her favorite evils:

Haley dismissed the suit.

“There is a trial lawyer with a hand out and a tissue ready at any crisis, and he has just proven that,” she said.

And where was she while the hacking was afoot? By the look of her calendar, doing a lot of politics and a little bit of work.