https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227519/Information_of_U.S._federal_employees_exposed By John Ribeiro IDG News Service May 28, 2012 A hack in July last year of a computer used by third-party services provider Serco to support the Thrift Savings Plan run by the U.S. Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board resulted in unauthorized access to the personal information of about 123,201 TSP participants and payees, FRTIB said Friday. Serco and FRTIB were alerted in April by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that one of the computers used to service TSP had been the victim of unauthorized access. Besides shutting down the computer, FRTIB and Serco did forensic analysis to determine which people were affected, and enhanced the security, FRTIB and Serco said in separate statements. Serco confirmed that its computer had been affected. Several files with different combinations of data of the individuals were accessed, FRTIB said.A The names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of about 43,000 individuals were in the accessed files. In some cases, this group of data also included financial account numbers and routing numbers, it added. Another group of about 80,000 people had their Social Security numbers and some TSP-related information accessed, but their name was not associated with the information, FRTIB said. [...] _______________________________________________ LayerOne Security Conference May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA http://www.layerone.orgReceived on Tue May 29 2012 - 01:25:42 PDT
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