US regulator OCC notifies Congress of major security breach
- The OCC notified Congress in April about a major breach discovered February 11 in its email system.
- Long-Held organizational deficiencies within the OCC contributed to the conditions that caused the breach.
- Attackers exploited an administrative account to access employee emails, potentially compromising sensitive data related to financial institutions.
- The OCC characterized this as a major incident, and Bloomberg reported attackers accessed over 150,000 emails.
- The OCC is taking steps to determine the breach's full extent and to prevent future attacks, but potential sector impact is still being assessed.
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Treasury bureau notifies Congress that email hack was a ‘major’ cybersecurity incident
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has notified Congress that a February breach of its email system is classified as a major cybersecurity incident. The incident was first disclosed Feb. 26, though the OCC provided virtually no details at the time, only saying that it had resolved a security incident “involving an administrative account in the OCC email system” and that a “limited number of affected email accounts” were disabled follo…
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