MOVEit hackers have breached 632,000 federal email addresses
The MOVEit cyber attack perpetrated by hacking group Clop continues to claim more victims, as this week it was revealed that the email addresses of approximately 632,000 US federal employees had been breached.
Reporting to a congressional committee, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) revealed that an unauthorized actor had breached government email addresses and links to government employee surveys between May 28-29 this year.
The impacted employees work across the Department of Justice and various sectors of the Defense Department, including the Air Force, Army, US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense among others.
The breach occurred when the hackers exploited a vulnerability within the MOVEit file transfer program used by Westat Inc., a vendor that the OPM engages for federal employee viewpoint surveys.
Despite characterizing the hack as a "major incident," the OPM clarified that it did not perceive it as posing a significant risk, and the compromised data was "generally of low sensitivity" and unclassified.
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