Alarm to US Emergency Management Service: Data breach and 23 employee redundancies

US Secretary of Homeland Minister Christie Noem said Friday said there was a breach of data on the Federal Emergency Management Service (FEMA), which has been hit by sweeping cuts and is threatened with dissolution. Noem did not go into details of the breach, but also accused employees of the FEMA IT department, announcing that he fired 23 of them. Although he referred to a threat not only to the ministry but also to the country, he assured that “no American citizen was immediately affected”. “There were no sensitive data from any network of the Ministry of Interior,” he said. Christie Noem accused the 23 employees of the FEMA Informatics Department of “failure”, “negligence”, “impotence” and dishonesty. The news of the breach of data from the Federal Emergency Management Service – and the redundancies allegedly linked to it – comes a few days after the open letter of protest signed by dozens of current and former FEMA staff members. Via […]
Source: News Beast

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