As many as 390,000 current and former Homeland Security Department employees, contractors and job applicants may have had their private data compromised in a newly disclosed computer hack discovered last year, huffingtonpost.com reports.
DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee said internal notices about the data breach discovered in September at KeyPoint Government Solutions Inc. were sent to employees starting April 27. Notifications have taken longer for those outside the department. In a letter to one former job applicant dated June 5, the government advised that the data breach was "initially discovered in September."
KeyPoint officials did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment Monday. Lee said the hack is a separate breach than one involving the same government contractor that was disclosed by the government in December.
