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Fed employee repeatedly removed sensitive files, watchdog finds

·Source: DataBreaches.net

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Executive Summary

Matt Bracken reports: A Federal Reserve Board staffer mishandled sensitive classified files and triggered hundreds of data loss prevention alerts leading up to their retirement, the agency’s inspector general revealed in a new report. The security issues with the employee were uncovered by the watchdog during its audit of the Fed’s offboarding process, which began... Source

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Matt Bracken reports: A Federal Reserve Board staffer mishandled sensitive classified files and triggered hundreds of data loss prevention alerts leading up to their retirement, the agency’s inspector general revealed in a new report. The security issues with the employee were uncovered by the watchdog during its audit of the Fed’s offboarding process, which began... Source
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Originally published by DataBreaches.net on Oct 3, 2026.

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