Personal information belonging to approximately 237,000 current and former U.S. government employees was exposed in a data breach of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Reuters reports. The publication obtained a DOT email to Congress, which stated the agency "isolated the breach to certain systems at the department used for administrative functions, such as employee transit benefits processing." The breach targeted TRANServe, a transit benefit system that reimburses federal employees for transportation costs.
US DOT data breach exposes personal data of 237K government employees
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