FBI recruitment systems breached, exposing sensitive employee data
The FBI’s recruitment website and PeopleSoft system were breached, exposing employees’ personal information and special agents’ blood and urine test results. ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen information on all employees, while the FBI launched an investigation and removed a contractor employee who had failed to apply security patches from their duties. A related suspect was subsequently arrested, and concerns were raised that US Department of Justice employees may also have been affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Employees’ personal information and special agents’ blood and urine test results exposed
- Cause / method
- A breach of the PeopleSoft system linked to a contractor employee’s failure to apply security patches
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked the FBI and stolen employee information.
- The FBI investigated the claims of employee data theft and the breach of its recruitment website.
- It emerged that the exposed data included special agents’ blood and urine test results.
- The FBI removed a contractor employee who had failed to apply security patches from their duties.
- The FBI arrested a suspected ShinyHunters member in connection with the employee data breach.
- The US Department of Justice warned that its employees’ information may also have been exposed.
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