Joe Davidson reports:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) on Monday retroactively reported to Congress that five additional “major incidents” of data breaches have occurred since Oct. 30. FDIC also is launching “a new initiative to enhance security.”
The incidents involved the breach of taxpayers’ personally identifiable information, The Washington Post has learned. In each case, employees with legitimate access to the information were leaving the agency when they inadvertently downloaded the data along with personal files. The individuals involved provided affidavits saying the data was not shared.
Read more on Washington Post.
Update: So it was 160,000 individuals affected? Yikes…
“FDIC considers these to be low-risk cases, but they each meet the threshold of 10,000 records inappropriately exposed. They are being retroactively reported now because the cases were closed before an FDIC Office of Inspector General decision in February to define “major incident” as one that involves at least 10,000 records.”
Snort, hmmpph.. wonderful how they are down-playing when they say ‘low risk’ cases. Just own it and accept responsibility, never should have happened and been much more secure
*sorry to add my snarcasm; couldnt help myself (snarcasm- snarky+ sarcasm)