A pedestrian passes the seal of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) displayed outside the organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Tuesday said that a February hack of its email systems qualified as a “major incident” and exposed “highly sensitive information.”
The breach, first disclosed and resolved in February, involved information related to the “financial condition of federally regulated financial institutions used in its examinations and supervisory oversight processes.”
“I have taken immediate steps to determine the full extent of the breach and to remedy the long-held organizational and structural deficiencies that contributed to this incident,” said Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney Hood.
“There will be full accountability for the vulnerabilities identified and any missed internal findings that led to the unauthorized access,” he added.
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