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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams Data Breach (2013)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams

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Disclosed

January 1, 2013

4833 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Government

Description

Users of the National Inventory of Dams received notification that their information was reset after a hack may have compromised usernames and passwords. Hackers obtained non-public information of around 8,100 major dams in the United States by breaching the database. The information included dam vulnerabilities and could be used by cyber terrorists.

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