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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.
Security teams are also more confident about their data breach response plans, even though the number is only 57%. Experian and the Ponemon Institute shared the state of data breaches and defenses against these attacks in the seventh annual "Is Your Company Ready for a Big Data Breach?" report. Experian has firsthand experience with a massive data breach.
A U.S. Defense Department agency that's responsible for providing secure communications and IT equipment for the president and other top government officials says a data breach of one of its systems may have exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers. While Defense Department officials did not provide specifics about the data breach, such as when it happened or how many individuals may have been affected, the notification letter refers to a data breach of a system hosted by the agency.
The United States' Defence Information Systems Agency has started notifying people that their personal information may have been compromised as a result of a data breach that occured in 2019. DISA is a Department of Defense combat support agency that employs over 8,000 military and civilian personnel.
Hacking incidents involving email appear to be the most common type of major health data breach being reported to federal regulators so far in 2020. A snapshot Wednesday of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool shows that so far in 2020, 38 health data breaches affecting a total of about 1.1 million individuals have been added to the official tally.
In the second global insider data breach survey, IT leaders found that 78% think employees have put data at risk accidentally in the past 12 months and 75% believe employees put data at risk intentionally. At the same time, 58% of managers said employee reporting is more likely than any breach detection system to alert them to an insider data breach.
CyberFlood Data Breach Assessment Version 2.0 greatly expands network readiness testing by adding endpoint evaluation, incorporating evasion techniques and encrypted attacks used by attackers, and supporting MITRE ATT&CK and other security frameworks. CyberFlood Data Breach Assessment now supports frameworks for arranging and reporting on attack assessment exercises, including the increasingly popular MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The United States government has officially charged four members of China's People's Liberation Army with hacking into credit reporting agency Equifax and being responsible for the massive data breach that exposed highly sensitive information on more than 145 million Americans. "Today, we hold PLA hackers accountable for their criminal actions, and we remind the Chinese government that we have the capability to remove the Internet's cloak of anonymity and find the hackers that nation repeatedly deploys against us. Unfortunately, the Equifax hack fits a disturbing and unacceptable pattern of state-sponsored computer intrusions and thefts by China and its citizens that have targeted personally identifiable information, trade secrets, and other confidential information."
The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans. In September 2017, credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed it had become a victim of a massive cyberattack that left highly sensitive data of nearly half of the U.S. population in the hands of hackers.
The United States Department of Justice today announced charges against 4 Chinese military hackers who were allegedly behind the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal and financial data of nearly 150 million Americans. In September 2017, credit reporting agency Equifax disclosed it had become a victim of a massive cyberattack that left highly sensitive data of nearly half of the U.S. population in the hands of hackers.