"Transportation Dept Cyber Breach Exposes Data of Federal Employees"

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has recently been hit with a data breach that may have exposed personally identifiable information of federal government employees.  The DOT said it was working to notify affected individuals whose personally identifiable information may have been compromised due to the breach and to help mitigate potential risks.  The data breach impacts individuals that are enrolled in the US Department of Transportation’s transit benefit program (TRANServe).  TRANServe manages the transit benefit program for DOT and other federal agencies.  The breach occurred within the system that supports TRANServe.  TRANServe is a commuting benefits system that reimburses staff across the federal government for certain transportation costs.  According to the DOT, the information compromised as a result of the breach may include details such as the name of TRANServe transit benefit recipients, their agency, work email address, work phone number, work address, home address, SmarTrip card number, and/or TRANServe Card number.  The breach is expected to affect 114,000 current DOT employees and 123,000 former DOT employees.

FedScoop reports: "Transportation Dept Cyber Breach Exposes Data of Federal Employees"