Cyber attack on TSP accounts

[dustin]

I find it interesting that this is just now being discovered/reported since it happened last year.

https://www.tsp.gov/whatsnew/plan/planNews.shtml#pii

https://www.tsp.gov/PDF/formspubs/Press.Release.2012-05-25.Cyber.pdf

Computer hacking incident reported — In April of 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informed the FRTIB and Serco that in July of last year, a computer belonging to Serco, a third party service provider used in support of the TSP, was subjected to an unauthorized access incident. This incident resulted in the unauthorized access to the personal information of 123,201 TSP participants and payees. When the TSP learned of the cyber attack, we took immediate steps to investigate and notify our participants and other affected individuals.

Several files with different combinations of data of approximately 123,201 individuals were accessed.

The names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of roughly 43,000 individuals were in the accessed files. In some cases, this group of data also included financial account numbers and routing numbers.

Another group of roughly 80,000 had their Social Security numbers and some TSP-related information accessed, but their name was not associated with this information.