A congressional report claims that Chinese hackers are responsible for multiple breaches to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”). The report claims that the hacks were covered in order to ensure the appointment of Martin J. Gruenberd, the FDIC’s current chairman. The report, written by Republican members of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, claims that breaches occurred in 2010, 2011, and 2013 from the Chinese government. The report also talks of a breach of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) from a former FDIC employee in October 2015. Read more here at Threapost.
