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In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
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]
The prospect of government data becoming less accessible or lower-quality could have long-term consequences — both tangible, in terms of dollars and cents, and intangible, in terms of confidence ...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says it was notified of a data breach by IT contractor CGI Federal. The GAO said that about 6,000 people, "primarily current and former GAO employees from ...
There are many civic technology, research, and business applications which rely on access to government data. [1] Dataset deletion can be useful maintenance or the result of poor archiving practice. [2] There is little government regulation on dataset management, so it can be challenging to determine when content deletions occur.
Government data breaches aren't always the work of foreign intruders or even disgruntled employees. Sometimes, it's a staffer who simply isn't security-conscious. The US' Office of the Comptroller ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.