- Jun 9, 2013
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Only non-confidential data was leaked in the incident
The US Census Bureau Director, John H. Thompson, revealed on Friday that his institution experienced a data breach the past week, but no sensitive or private information was leaked.
On a post on the bureau's blog penned by Mr. Thompson himself, he revealed how attackers got access to an external facing database belonging to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
This database contained details about the names of the person submitting information to the US Census Bureau, organization addresses, phone numbers, usernames, and other types of data the bureau did not consider confidential.
Regarding private information collected from US citizens and businesses, Mr. Thompson said, "That information remains safe, secure and on an internal network segmented apart from the external site and the affected database. Over the last three days, we have seen no indication that there was any access to internal systems."
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The US Census Bureau Director, John H. Thompson, revealed on Friday that his institution experienced a data breach the past week, but no sensitive or private information was leaked.
On a post on the bureau's blog penned by Mr. Thompson himself, he revealed how attackers got access to an external facing database belonging to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse.
This database contained details about the names of the person submitting information to the US Census Bureau, organization addresses, phone numbers, usernames, and other types of data the bureau did not consider confidential.
Regarding private information collected from US citizens and businesses, Mr. Thompson said, "That information remains safe, secure and on an internal network segmented apart from the external site and the affected database. Over the last three days, we have seen no indication that there was any access to internal systems."
Full article. http://news.softpedia.com/news/us-c...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
