USDA employees identity safe
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that personal identity information was neither downloaded nor transferred outside the department?s computer system last month when it was illegally accessed. Based on information obtained by department investigators, the agency notified current and former employees as well as contractors in the Washington D.C. area their personal data had not been compromised.
?We are pleased to share this good news with employees and contractors, and we remain committed to aggressively continuing our review of all USDA data systems containing personal information,? said USDA Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner in an agency news release. ?Hackers attempt to break into our computer systems on average of two thousand times per day, and we take very seriously our responsibility to protect personal information.?
