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DATA OF 237,000 US GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES BREACHED

By David Shepardson on May 15, 2023 6:50AM


SYSTEM FOR REIMBURSING COMMUTING COSTS HIT.

The personal information of 237,000 current and former US federal government
employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department
(USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said.

The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse
government employees for some commuting costs.

It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal
purposes.



USDOT notified Congress 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."

USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any
transportation safety systems. It did not say who might be responsible for the
hack.

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The department is investigating the breach and has frozen access to the transit
benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said.

The maximum benefit allowance is US$280 ($421) per month for federal employee
mass transit commuting costs.

The breach impacted 114,000 current employees and 123,000 former employees.

Federal employees and agencies have been target of hackers in the past.

Two breaches at the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015
compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people, including
4.2 million current and federal employees along with fingerprint data of 5.6
million of those individuals.



Suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow
into US federal agencies breached unclassified Justice Department networks and
read emails at the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments. Nine
federal agencies were breached, Reuters reported in 2021.

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