The Federal Aviation Administration has notified employees that one of its computers was hacked, and the personally identifiable information of more than 45,000 employees and retirees was stolen electronically. All affected employees will receive individual letters to notify them about the breach, the FAA said Feb. 9.
Two of the 48 files on the breached server contained personal information about employees and retirees who were on the FAA’s rolls as of the first week of February 2006, the FAA said in a statement.
In a letter to employees Feb. 9, Lynne Osmus, the acting FAA administrator, said that the agency’s Cyber Security Management Center was investigating unusual activity when it discovered an administrative server had been hacked.
Most of the 48 breached files were test files used for application development, but two of these files contained names and Social Security Numbers, she said. Medical information from the hacked files was encrypted and not identifiable.
“We are moving swiftly to identify short-term and long-term measures — procedural and technological — to prevent such incidents from recurring. All current and former employees who are affected will receive a letter shortly alerting them to this event,” Osmus said. . . . .
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US warned over cyber attacks
Cyber attacks against the US have become “a strategic issue on par with weapons of mass destruction or global jihad”, a new commission reported on Monday as it urged President-elect Barack Obama to raise the issue to the top of his national security agenda. . . . .
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The bottom line is that FAA’s “Temporary Girl” Lynne Osmus, David “I.T. Guru” Bowen, and Ventris “Get That H.R. Goon Off The Plane” Gibson, should all be fired immediately for their malfeasance in allowing this totally-preventable I.T. and security breach to occur.