US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people

Disa Global Solutions, a provider of employee screening services based in the United States, has announced that it has suffered a data injury that affects more than 3.3 million people.

Disa that offers services such as drug and alcohol tests as well as background exams more than 55,000 companies And a third of Fortune 500 companies confirmed the data injury in A submission With Main’s Attorney General on Monday.

Disa said it found that they remained unnoticed over two months.

In a letter to the persons affected by the data injury, to which people belong to employees who have carried out -screening tests, Disa said that the attacker “procured some information from his systems”.

In a separate submission With the Massachusetts Attorney General, Disa confirmed that the stolen information included the social security numbers of people, financial account information including credit card numbers and state -based identification documents. This submission confirmed that more than 360,000 inhabitants of Massachusetts were affected by the violation.

In his notification letter for data injuries, however, Disa said that “the data bought could not finally conclude”, which indicates that the company does not have the technical means such as protocols in order to determine which internal data was accessed or completed.

After his sight websiteDisa collects a wide range of personal and sensitive information, including details on the work history of an applicant, the background of education, the penalty register and the credit story.

It is not yet known who was behind the cyber attack or how the organization was compromised. It is also unclear why it takes so long to inform those affected about the violation.

Disa did not immediately answer the questions from Techcrunch.