9000+ Department of Homeland Security staff have their details leaked by hacker | CyberSecurity | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

Any time you interact with an organisation that has “security” in their name, it’s understandable that you would expect them to be good at security. Right?

You would hope them to be shining examples for everyone else about how to do things right, how to batten down the hatches and protect sensitive information from falling into the hands of the bad guys.

But, as the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has just found out – things aren’t always that simple.

As CSO Online reports, this weekend a hacker dumped a staff directory including the names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 9,000 DHS workers on the net.


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