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Homeland Security Breach Exposes 240,000 Employees
- January 5, 2018
- Tech News Summaries
Personal information of 240,000 employees of the Department of Homeland Security(DHS), in the USA, was exposed as a result of a data breach which occurred in May 2017.
The department mentioned that the 'privacy incident' was not as a result of a cyber-attack. They explained that the information was seen in the possession of a former employee of DHS Office of Inspector General during an ongoing criminal investigation.
The Agency said they alerted their employees of the data breach in a letter. Investigations are still ongoing and DHS hopes to get to the root of the matter.
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