On March 20, 2019, a pedestrian will pass the seal of the office of the Comptroller of the Currency that is displayed outside the head office of the organization in Washington.
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The office of the Currency Comproller on Tuesday said A February -Hack of his e -mail systems qualified as a “great incident” and revealed “very sensitive information”.
The infringement, first made public and resolved in February, included information with regard to the “financial situation of federally regulated financial institutions used in its exams and supervisory processes.”
The OCC, an agency that regulates and supervises National Banks, said that it heard of the incident on 11 February and concluded that compromised administrative accounts the next day. The regulator said that the external cyber security experts uses for a complete assessment of the incident and launching an IT security policy assessment to prevent further attacks.
“I immediately took steps to determine the full extent of the infringement and to remedy the long -term organizational and structural shortcomings that contributed to this incident,” said acting competent of the currency Rodney Hood.
“There will be a full accountability for the identified vulnerabilities and any missed internal findings that have led to the unauthorized access,” he added.
Hackers had access to more than 150,000 E emails from June 2023 to earlier this year, Bloomberg reported Previously, with reference to people with knowledge of the case.