About 250K Homeland Security Workers Affected by Data Breach

Roughly 250,000 Department of Homeland Security employees are being notified of an unauthorized release of their personal data because of circumstances a former DHS official says are “different than your typical cyber breach.”

The department discovered in May that an unauthorized copy of its investigative case management system was in the possession of a former employee of the DHS Office of Inspector General. According to the DHS, it delayed announcing the data breach until now because of the complexity of its subsequent investigation.

The current breach looks like “an insider threat” by a former employee rather than a state-sponsored cyber ...