According to officials briefed on the situation on Friday, a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT) exposed the personal data of 237,000 current and past federal employees.
The compromise affected systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits, which pay some commuting expenses for government workers. It was unclear whether any of the personal data had been utilised illegally.
In an email obtained by Reuters, USDOT informed Congress on Friday that its preliminary investigation into the data breach “isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions read more Data of 237k US government employees breached.
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