Hackers Accessed 632,000 Email Addresses at US Justice, Defense Departments
- Hackers gained unauthorized access to over 632,000 government employee email addresses, including employees from the Justice and Defense departments. The data breach was characterized as a "major incident" by the Office of Personnel Management.
- The breach occurred through a file transfer program called MOVEit, used by the data firm Westat, which administers employee surveys for OPM. The compromised data was generally of low sensitivity and not classified.
- The cyberattack, believed to be the work of a Russian-speaking criminal group called CLoP, has affected multiple government agencies and private companies, estimated to be in the hundreds.
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