#Solarwinds data breach software#
Suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 20 compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people, including 4.2 mln current and federal employees along with fingerprint data of 5.6 mln of those individuals. The breach impacted 114,000 current employees and 123,000 former employees.įederal employees and agencies have been targets of hackers in the past. The maximum benefit allowance is USD 280 per month for federal employee mass transit commuting costs. The department is investigating the breach and has frozen access to the transit benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said. It did not say who might be responsible for the hack. USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any transportation safety systems. USDOT notified Congress Friday in an email seen by Reuters that its initial investigation of the data breach has “isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, such as employee transit benefits processing.” It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal purposes. The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs.
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