632,000 Pentagon, DOJ email addresses hacked by Russian group, report says
OCTOBER 30, 2023 ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
The email addresses of over 600,000 Defense Department and Justice Department employees were hacked by a Russian group earlier this year, according to a new report obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
The US Office of Personnel Management report shed new light on a cyberattack targeting the federal government last summer. Hackers used defects in a popular file-transfer tool, MOVEit, to compromise multiple government agencies, Bloomberg reported, including the Air Force, Army, US Army Corps of Engineers, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and Defense Agencies and Field Activities.
The hack, which took place on May 28 and 29, was described by the Office of Personnel Management as a “major incident,” but insisted it didn’t pose a significant risk and the hacked material was “generally of low sensitivity.”
The US Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture and the General Services Administration were also impacted by the hack.
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