Data breach exposes personal info of 237,000 US govt employees

A massive data breach at US Transportation Department( USDOT) compromised the particular information of around 237,000 current and former civil government workers, Reuters quoted sources as saying on Friday.

Sources said the breach targeted the systems used to exercise the government workers’ TRANServe vehicle benefits that deal with the payment of some commuting costs.

There were no immediate reports about the leak of particular information or its lawless use.

USDOT informed Congress Friday in an dispatch seen by Reuters that its original exploration of the data breach has” isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, analogous as hand vehicle benefits processing.”

USDOT said in a statement to Reuters the breach did not affect any transportation safety systems. It did not say who might be responsible for the hack.

The department is probing the breach and has concrete access to the vehicle benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said.

The maximum benefit allowance is$ 280 per month for civil hand mass vehicle swapping costs. The breach impacted 114,000 current workers and 123,000 former workers.

Civil workers and agencies have been target of hackers in the history.

Two breaches attheU.S. Office of Personnel Management( OPM) in 2014 and 2015 compromised sensitive data belonging to further than 22 million people, including4.2 million current and civil workers along with point data of5.6 million of those individualities.

Suspected Russian hackers who used SolarWinds and Microsoft software to burrow into U.S. civil agencies traduced unclassified Justice Department networks and read emails at the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments. Nine civil agencies were traduced, Reuters reported in 2021.