The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), an independent federal agency that helps regulate futures and option markets, was hit with a data breach last month according to an e-mail statement from the Commission that circulated online late last week.
The e-mail confirmed an attacker was able to phish one of the agency’s employees on May 21 and gain access to the employee’s e-mail. Some of the e-mails that were raided included attachments that contained coworkers’ names, social security numbers and “possibly other sensitive personally identifiable information of certain individuals,” according to
Bloomberg, who was able to acquire a copy of the statement.
