- The currency comptroller office confirmed that it suffers a data violation
- He told us to Congress that it was a “great information security incident”
- The identity of criminals is not known at this time
The Office of the Comptroller of La Moneda (OCC), a Federal Agency of the United States that acts as a regulator of National Banks, confirmed that it suffers a cyber attack recently.
In a brief press release posted on its website, the West said that in February 2025 “he identified, isolated and resolved” a security incident “that involves an administrative account in the Email System of the West.”
When executing its due diligence, the West analyzed all email records since 2022 and said it identified a “limited number” of affected email accounts, all of which since then have been disabled.
100 emails of regulators
“The OCC informed the incident to the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, as necessary,” the agency concluded. “There are no indications of any impact on the financial sector at this time.”
The OCC is an independent office of the United States Treasury Department that regulates and supervises national banks and federal savings associations to ensure that they operate safely, solidly and fulfilled laws and regulations.
Its press release is quite vague, but the media managed to dig up some more details. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Bleepingcomputer It informs that cybercriminals accessed more than 150,000 emails, and around 100 emails of bank regulators.
He also said that the OCC told the United States Congress that this was an “important information security incident” that was discovered on February 11 and was remedied on February 12.
The West told the agency that “unauthorized access to several emails from its executives and employees included highly confidential information related to the financial condition of the financial institutions regulated by the federal government used in their examinations and supervision supervision processes.”
If all this turns out to be true, this could be the second data incident related to the government from the Trump’s election. The first happened when The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the chat of the White House signals in which air attacks were discussed in Yemen.
Through Bleepingcomputer
