- The Office of Comptroller of the Currency Confirmed Suffering by a Data Override
- It told us Congress that it was a “greater information security event”
- The identity of miscreants is not known at this time
The Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an American federal agency that acts as a national bank’s regulator, recently confirmed a cyberattack.
In a short press release published on its website, OCC said that in February 2025 it “identified, isolated and resolved” a security event “involving an administrative account in the OCC -Mail system.”
Driving its Due Diligence analyzed OCC all E -mail logs since 2022 and said it identified a “limited number” of affected E -mail accounts that have all been disabled since.
100 regulators’ e emails
“OCC reported on the incident for cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency as needed,” the agency concluded. “There is no indication of any influence on the financial sector at this time.”
OCC is an independent agency for the US Ministry of Finance that regulates and monitors national banks and federal savings associations to ensure that they operate safely, healthy and in accordance with laws and regulations.
Its press release is quite vague, but the media managed to dig a few more details. Quoting anonymous sources that are familiar with the matter, Bleeping computer Reports that the cyber criminals gained access to more than 150,000 E emails and about 100 bank regulators’ e emails.
It also said that OCC told the US Congress that this was a “major information security event” discovered on February 11 and remedied on February 12.
OCC told the body that “the unauthorized access to a number of its managers and employees’ emails included very sensitive information relating to the economic state of federally regulated financial institutions used in its investigations and supervisory processes.”
If all this turns out to be true, this may be the other major government -related data incitement since Trump’s choice. The first thing happened when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the White House Signal Group Chat, where air strikes in Yemen were discussed.
Via Bleeping computer
