The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Tuesday, that emails of executives and other employees of the agency were hacked, blaming longstanding vulnerabilities for the breach.
The U.S. financial regulator said it had told Congress the breach involved unauthorized access to highly sensitive information relating to the financial condition of federally regulated financial institutions.
The regulator said it first learned of the breach on February 11 and disclosed the incident, about two weeks later. At the time, the OCC said the breach involved an administrative account in the agency’s email system and that there was no indication of any impact on the financial sector.
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