Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired 24 workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after a cyber breach threatened national security, she announced on Aug. 29.
A cyber hacker breached FEMA systems, but no sensitive data was taken from any Department of Homeland Security (DHS) networks, the department reported. FEMA is an agency within the DHS.
FEMA’s chief information officer, chief information security officer, and 22 other IT employees allegedly responsible for the security failure were immediately terminated.
Noem accused longtime employees of working to prevent DHS personnel from solving the problem and downplaying how bad the breach was when DHS stepped in to fix the issue….