Department of Homeland Security Investigating Massive Internet Attack | Homeland Security Degrees
Department of Homeland Security Investigating Massive Internet Attack | Homeland Security Degrees
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The department says it is investigating the massive attack on sites like Twitter, Amazon, Paypal and others that rattled Internet users in at least six countries….
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WASHINGTON: Hackers breached the computers of the U.S. government agency that collects personnel information for federal workers in a massive cyber attack that compromised the data of about 4 million current and former employees, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
A U.S. law enforcement source told Reuters a foreign entity or government was believed to be behind the cyber intrusion against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and media reports said authorities suspected it originated in China.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had launched a probe and would hold the culprits accountable.
OPM detected new malicious activity affecting its information systems in April and the Department of Homeland Security said it concluded at the beginning of May that the agency’s data had been compromised.
Department, the U.S. Postal Service and the White House. The breach affected OPM’s IT systems and its data stored at the Department of the Interior’s data centre, which is a shared service centre for federal agencies, a DHS official said on condition of anonymity. The official would not comment on whether other agencies’ data had been affected.
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