Noem reports breach at FEMA, fires 23 employees

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Friday that there had been an IT breach at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has been buffeted by deep cuts and is slated for elimination.

Noem’s statement gave few specifics about the nature of the breach except to blame FEMA’s staff, two dozen of whom she said she had fired.

Noem said the hack threatened “the entire Department and the nation as a whole” but at the same time said that “no American citizens were directly impacted.” She added: “No sensitive data was extracted from any DHS networks.”

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