From: Politico/Morning Cybersecurity
By JOSEPH MARKS
With help from David Perera, Tal Kopan, Tony Romm and Anila Alexander
A data breach acknowledged by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday is the third likely-foreign-sourced cyber intrusion of a federal agency in as many weeks and the second to draw congressional questions about the long lag time between when federal leaders knew of the breach and when they alerted the public. Last week’s breach at the U.S. Postal Service drew measured questions from Chairman Darrell Issa and ranking member Elijah Cummings of the House Oversight Committee. They acknowledged USPS briefed the committee the month before but questioned why it took two months for USPS to make the breach public. Yesterday’s acknowledgement from NOAA, by contrast, brought outage and charges of a cover up from retiring Rep. Frank Wolf, chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Committee’s appropriations panel.
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