The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has disclosed a serious breach involving its email systems.
Unknown hackers gained unauthorized access and potentially stole sensitive information linked to over 160,000 employees of the agency.
The breach started in June 2023, with the hackers accessing and exfiltrating over 150,000 possibly confidential emails.
In related news, a new regulatory measure restricts data transfers to countries deemed to pose a national security threat, with severe penalties for non-compliance.