FAA Systems Hacked, Employee Information Released
If you worry about the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging computer systems and their inability to effectively deal with the constant flood of air traffic, perhaps you should spare a thought for the internal systems that keep track of the Administration’s thousands of employees. Apparently, they’re in need of some attention, too, with the FAA announcing that the names and social security numbers of 45,000 employees were recently accessed by hackers.
In a statement on Monday, the FAA said that the hackers accessed the information of all FAA employees hired before February 2006 at some point last week. There is no word, however, on whether or not these employees’ information is being used for nefarious means.
If there’s some good news, it’s that hackers were not able to access any systems related to air traffic control — probably because most of the hardware predates the Internet.
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