Jason Leopold

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Jason Leopold

Welcome back to FOIA Files! Well, you can now add the State Department to the growing number of agencies with FOIA operations ravaged by the Trump administration’s cuts across the federal government. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has prohibited its FOIA officers from producing documents responsive to requests filed this year until it clears out its (extremely long) backlog.

2 weeks ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Jason Leopold

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2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Jason Leopold

A software company that handles sensitive data for nearly every US federal agency was the victim of a cyber breach earlier this year due to a “major lapse” in security measures, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Opexus, which is owned by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo and provides software services for processing US government records, was compromised in February by two employees who’d previously been convicted of hacking into the US State Department.

2 weeks ago | financialpost.com | Jason Leopold

Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations and FOIA requests allowed two convicted hackers to delete databases, according to internal documents. Article content(Bloomberg) — A software company that handles sensitive data for nearly every US federal agency was the victim of a cyber breach earlier this year due to a “major lapse” in security measures, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Jason Leopold

Welcome to a special edition of FOIA Files! Today, I published a wild story sparked by an email I received from a federal agency. It alerted me that a few days’ worth of Freedom of Information Act requests submitted in February had been “lost” due to a “data failure” or an “outage” at a software company the agencies work with. My investigation into the incident led to a big reveal related to some twin problems.