Why Did Hackers Hit the Fed Pension Plan?
More questions are surfacing about the data breach that targeted the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's Thrift Savings Plan in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation portrays as a sophisticated cyber-attack.
News of the attack, which may have exposed personally identifiable information on as many as 123,000 pension participants, was made public May 25.
The board says it was notified by the FBI of the breach in mid-April, but it needed time to analyze and review the breach before it could make any notifications. But it's not the April-to-May gap that concerns me the most - it's the gap between July 2011, when the FBI says the breach occurred, and the FBI's notification of the board in April.
