Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The personal information of roughly 123,000 federal employees -- including at least 25 members of Congress -- may have been exposed after a cyber attack last year on the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), FOX News Channel confirmed Friday.
The retirement savings plan is available to almost all current and retired employees in every branch of the government, including civilian and military personnel of the Department of Defense. Its assets total $313 billion, FOX reported.The cyber attack occurred last July against a TSP contractor, Serco Inc. The FBI notified both Serco and the TSP last month about the attack."There is no evidence of any funds being diverted or identity theft resulting from the incident," Serco said in a statement released Friday. "An extensive forensic analysis of the data also shows no indication that the TSP network, which supports TSP's 4.5 million participants, was subjected to unauthorized access." According to Serco, the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of ro...
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