Sean Lyngaas reports:
A sweeping cybersecurity breach of congressional members’ private information was more extensive than previously known and affects not only House lawmakers and their staff but also Senate employees.
The Senate sergeant-at-arms alerted Senate staff about the breach Thursday in an email obtained by CNN.
The compromised data is “extensive,” and includes sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, home addresses and information on Senate employees’ health insurance plans, the sergeant-at-arms said in the email, which urged Senate staff to freeze their family credit to guard against fraud.
Read more at CNN.
Although the original listing of the breach and data for sale appears to have been removed from the forum where it appeared, another listing for data allegedly from the same incident appeared yesterday, posted by a different user on the same forum.
Unlike the private sale offer in the first listing, this second listing allows anyone with 8 forum credits or tokens to download the data. Free samples were provided of the data.