The United States’ federal defense agency responsible for ensuring safe communications with many high profile personalities including President Donald Trump, national leaders, and military operations, admitted experiencing a security breach.
The data breach occurred at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in 2019, however, it is yet unclear whether or not the entire data belonged to DISA.
The unknown attackers managed to hack Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including Social Security Numbers of approx. 200,000 individuals, as per the revelation from the Department of Defense’ spokesperson Chuck Prichard.
In a letter sent by DISA to the affected individuals and mainstream news agencies on February 11, 2020, it was explained that the cyberattack took place between May and July 2019, and that the system hosted by DISA was affected by the security breach.
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It is clearly written in the letter that there is no indication of the misuse of PII.
Source: Reuters
It is worth noting that DISA has a policy under which the agency is liable to inform individuals if their personal data has been compromised. Furthermore, the agency has offered credit ..
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