Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-08-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: USIS
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: USIS, a major US contractor that conducts background checks for the Department of Homeland Security suffers a computer breach that probably resulted in the theft of employees' personal information. The breach is believed to be related to the Office of Personnel Management hack.