Idaho National Laboratory Suffers Data Breach, Employee Data Compromised

Idaho National Laboratory, the nuclear energy testing lab that comprise of an estimated 5,700 experts, has recently suffered a major data breach in their systems.

The data breach took place last Sunday, on November 19. The stolen data comprise of the laboratory’s employees’ critical data, which was later leaked on online forums. 

The investigation on the breach is being carried out by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI, who are working in collaboration with INL, a spokesperson informed. Physical addresses, bank account details, and Social Security numbers are among the data that are impacted.

In an interview regarding the incident, the spokesperson told local news outlet EastIdahoNews.com that the breach has impacted INL’s Oracle HCM system, a cloud-based workforce management platform that offers payroll and other HR solutions, was impacted by the attack.

SiegedSec, a self-entitled hacktivist group has since taken responsibility of the attack, following which it published a sample of the stolen employee data online, which included full names, dates of birth, email addresses, contact details and other identity info of the INL employees to their data breach forum. 

The group, which seems to have political motivations, was also accused in the past of stealing informat

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