U.S. agency that handles Trump's secure communication suffered data breach


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: A building at Fort Meade, Maryland, where the Defense Information Systems Agency is headquartered, September 19, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. defence agency that handles secure communications for President Donald Trump said Social Security numbers and other personal data in its network may have been compromised, according to letters seen by Reuters on Thursday that were sent to people possibly affected.

The letters, dated Feb. 11, 2020, say that between May and July 2019, personal data may have been compromised "in a data breach" of a system hosted by the Defence Information Systems Agency.

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