The US Dept. of Agriculture is investigating a “possible data breach” of a department contractor connected to a broader hack on multiple federal agencies that officials have blamed on Russian cybercriminals, a dept. spokesperson told CNN on Saturday night.
The USDA has nearly 100,000 employees who manage a wide portfolio of federal programs on nutrition, forestation and farming, according to its website.by the hack, which officials have said appears to be an opportunistic move to gain access to as many organizations as possible to extort them, CNN first reported on Thursday.
No federal agencies have reported receiving demands, but corporate victims have previously reported demands of millions of dollars. The hackers last month began exploiting a vulnerability in widely use file-transfer software known as MOVEit, made by the Massachusetts-based firm Progress Software.may have the vulnerable software installed, US officials have said. Big corporations overseas like the BBC and British Airways have also had data exposed.
One person with direct knowledge of negotiations between the hacking gang, known as Clop, and its victims said the hackers had in one case asked for more than $100 million from one corporate victim — an audacious number that was a nonstarter. US officials and Progress Software have issued security recommendations for responding to the vulnerabilities in the software
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