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EPA security breach exposes personal information of 8,000 people

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Dissent

Jill R. Aitoro reports:

A computer security breach at the Environmental Protection Agency exposed the Social Security numbers and banking information of nearly 8,000 people, most of them current employees, the EPA confirmed.

The agency wouldn’t say whether the breach involved or affected any government contractors but told the Washington Business Journal in a statement Wednesday that it notified 5,100 current employees and some 2,700 “other individuals” about a March security incident that exposed personal information on an EPA database. Those impacted were informed about the breach Tuesday, four months after it occurred.

Read more on Washington Business Journal.

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