Nextgov: Personal information about more than 247,000 Homeland Security Department employees and other people connected with the agency was compromised in 2014, the department’s internal auditor said Wednesday.
In May, the Homeland Security inspector general’s office found a copy of its investigative case management system—and the reams of personal information it contained—in the possession of a former inspector general’s office employee, according to a department statement.
Inspectors found the case management system as part of a criminal investigation but did not say if the former employee is the target of that investigation.
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