Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:03:28 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Department of Homeland Insecurity
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Excerpt:
A security breach at a Web portal for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security has exposed private documents and some financial information
belonging to at least 114 organizations that bid on a contract at the
agency last year.

\342\200\234This letter is to inform you that your company\342\200\231s bank account information
may have been improperly accessed because of this incident,\342\200\235 reads a
letter sent to affected organizations earlier this month by DHS privacy
officer Christopher Lee. \342\200\234The incident appears to have occurred sometime
over the prior four months.\342\200\235

The letter was sent to organizations that bid on a 2013 contract to help
DHS\342\200\231s Science & Technology division develop new communications
technologies for first responders. According to DHS, the documents were
downloaded from a department Web portal by unauthorized persons outside of
the agency, although it hasn\342\200\231t yet determined the cause or source of that
access.
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        mark