Security News > 2020 > February > Data Breach Occurs at Agency in Charge of Secure White House Communications
Hackers have compromised the Department of Defense agency in charge of securing and managing communications for the White House, leaking personally identifiable information of employees and leading to concerns over the safety of the communications of top-level U.S. officials in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
Reuters first reported the data breach at the Defense Information Systems Agency, part of the DoD, on Friday, citing letters seen by the news outlet that were sent to people allegedly affected by the breach.
"During the May to July 2019 time frame, some of your personal information, including your social security number, may have been compromised in a data breach on a system hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency," states the letter, signed by Roger Greenwell, DISA CIO and risk management executive.
DISA does not believe that any data from the breach has been misused, Greenwell wrote.
"It's a painful irony that the agency charged with providing secure comms for the White House has fallen victim to a data breach."
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