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June 2015 – United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting personnel records. [9] Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family. [10] [11]
In 2008, the United States Department of Defense was infected with malware. Described at the time as the "worst breach of U.S. military computers in history", the defense against the attack was named "Operation Buckshot Yankee". It led to the creation of the United States Cyber Command. [1] [2] [3]
The Russian government was blamed for the attacks, although there was initially little hard evidence to back up the US accusations besides a Russian IP address that was traced to the hack. Although Moonlight Maze was regarded as an isolated attack for many years, unrelated investigations revealed that the threat actor involved in the attack ...
June: the records of 21.5 million people, including social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, fingerprints, and security clearance-related information, are stolen from the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). [100] Most of the victims are employees of the United States government and unsuccessful applicants to it.
The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General.DCIS protects military personnel by investigating cases of fraud, bribery, and corruption; preventing the illegal transfer of sensitive defense technologies to proscribed nations and criminal elements; investigating companies that use defective ...
House Republicans are attempting to end the release of the service records of current and former military members after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several GOP ...
In 2020, Donald Trump pardoned cybersecurity executive Chris Wade for crimes that had been sealed. Unsealed documents show he was part of a sophisticated spam email operation busted by an informant.
United States 70 different law enforcement agencies: 2011 123,461: government: accidentally published [133] United States National Archives and Records Administration (U.S. military veterans records) 2009 76,000,000: military: lost / stolen media [134] United States U.S. State Department: 2010 260,000: military: inside job [135] United States