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Aerows

(39,961 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 01:35 PM Jun 2015

Nearly 400,000 Homeland Security Employees May Have Had Private Data Compromised

This is completely independent from the OPM Hack.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/homeland-security-data-breach_n_7589932.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 390,000 current and former Homeland Security Department employees, contractors and job applicants may have had their private data compromised in a newly disclosed computer hack discovered last year.

DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee said internal notices about the data breach discovered in September at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. were sent to employees starting April 27. The KeyPoint hack is separate from the hacks of the Office of Personnel Management attacks disclosed earlier this month.


Lee said the hack is a separate breach than one involving the same government contractor that was disclosed by the government in December.


The latest disclosure comes amid an ongoing investigation of a massive hack of government files held by OPM. The records of as many as 14 million current and former civilian government employees may have been compromised.
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