IT contractor CGI Federal says US government data breach was tied to Atlassian bug


FILE PHOTO: A hand is seen on a laptop with binary codes displayed in front of the USA flag in this illustration taken, August 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. government data breach disclosed earlier this year was tied to a bug in enterprise software maker Atlassian's Confluence suite of collaboration tools, an IT contractor said on Tuesday.

CGI Federal, an IT contractor and unit of CGI Inc, said in a statement that it was working "with authorities and clients to identify and disclose any data affected by the Confluence exploitation," which was made public in October.

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