US Public Health Service Sep 2016 Hacking (Q16801)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Public Health Service Sep 2016 Hacking |
A data breach risk event |
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September 2016
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The Surgeon General on Monday issued a warning to his staff that is all too familiar to federal employees: Your personal information may have been stolen. In an email, Surgeon General Vice Adm. Vivek H. Murthy told commissioned corps employees of the Public Health Service that information, including their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, may have been accessed by unauthenticated users who hacked the agencys personnel system. Based on our investigation, affected individuals are those served by this website-based system: current, retired, and former Commissioned Corps officers and their dependents, the email said. The commissioned corps is a cadre of about 6,600 medical professionals including physicians, nurses, dentists, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, researcher (English)
