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DISA Global Solutions , a U.S.-based provider of employee viewing services , has said it suffered a data rupture that bear on more than 3.3 million masses .
DISA , which provides services like drug and alcohol testing and background check tomore than 55,000 enterprisesand a third of Fortune 500 companies , support the data point breach in afilingwith Maine ’s attorney general on Monday .
DISA read it discovered it had been the victim of a “ cyber incident ” that move a “ circumscribed portion ” of its web on April 22 , 2024 . An interior probe determined that a hacker had infiltrated the company ’s connection on February 9 , 2024 , where they went unnoticed for over two months .
In a letter sent to those affect by the data rift , which include individuals who underwent employee screening trial , DISA say the assaulter “ pimp some info ” from its systems .
In a separatefilingwith the Massachusetts lawyer full general , DISA confirmed the stolen entropy include somebody ’ Social Security numbers ; financial account selective information , include credit card numbers racket ; and administration - issued identification document . This filing confirm that more than 360,000 Massachusetts resident were affected by the rift .
However , in its datum breach notification letter , DISA said it “ could not definitively conclude the specific information pander , ” suggesting the company does not have the expert means , such as log , to observe precisely what intimate information was accessed or exfiltrated .
According to itswebsite , DISA collects a spacious range of personal and sensitive information , including details about an applicant ’s work account , educational setting , felonious records , and credit history .
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It ’s not yet know who was behind the cyberattack or how the organization was compromise . It ’s also unclear why it has taken DISA so long to notify affect individuals about the break .
DISA did not at once respond to TechCrunch ’s question .
