FBI suspends contractor due to employee data leak

Brief retelling from RIA II

The FBI suspended a contractor due to his involvement in an incident involving the theft of a large amount of data from agency employees.

The incident occurred after the contractor failed to install a security update.

The hacker group ShinyHunters announced that it had hacked several FBI-related services and provided the 404 Media portal with a sample of data allegedly containing personal information about 5 thousand FBI employees.

WASHINGTON, October 6 - RIA Novosti. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has suspended a contractor due to his involvement in an incident involving the theft of a large amount of data from FBI employees, Reuters reports, citing a senior agency official.

Brett Leatherman, who oversees cybersecurity at the bureau, told Reuters that the incident occurred after the contractor failed to install a security update.

“In this regard, the FBI refused the services of the contractor and took all necessary measures both to reduce further risks and to protect our employees,” Letterman said in a statement to Reuters.

Reuters sources claim that we are talking about the PeopleSoft HR platform, which was serviced by Accenture.

"Reuters was unable to immediately determine which contractor was being referred to or his current employment status," the agency wrote.

On September 22, the hacker group ShinyHunters made a statement about hacking several FBI-related services and gaining access to the data of all agency employees and candidates for service in it.