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

DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people. DISA, which provides services like drug and alcohol testing and background checks to more than 55,000 enterprises and a third of Fortune 500 companies, confirmed the data breach in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Monday. DISA said it discovered it had been the victim of a “cyber incident” that impacted a “limited portion” of its network on April 22, 2024. An internal investigation determined that a hacker had infiltrated the company’s network on February 9, 2024, where they went unnoticed for over two months. In a letter sent to those affected by the data breach, which includes individuals who underwent employee screening tests, DISA said the attacker “procured some information” from its systems. In a separate filing with the Massachusetts attorney general, DISA confirmed the stolen information included individuals’ Soc ... Read full article.