US Home Security Minister Christie Noem said Friday that there was a breach of data on the Federal Emergency Management Service Network (Fema), which has been affected by sweeping cuts and is threatened with dissolution.
Noem did not go into details of the breach, but also accused employees of the FEMA IT department, announcing that he fired 23 of them.
Although he referred to a threat not only for the ministry but also to the country, he assured that “No American citizen was immediately affected.” ‘No sensitive data from any network of the Ministry of Homeland Security were exported’he said.
Christie Noem accused the 23 employees of the FEMA Informatics Department for ‘Failure’, ‘negligence’, ‘impotence’ and ‘Irresponsibility’. The news of the breach of data from the Federal Emergency Management Service – and the redundancies allegedly linked to it – comes a few days after the open letter of protest signed by dozens of current and former FEMA staff members. In this letter, the US Congress warned that the inexperience of leadership placed by President Trump may lead to a disaster commensurate with Hurricane Katrina, who had scanned New Orleans 20 years ago.
US President Donald Trump has previously stated that in the event of disasters, state authorities will have to take over crisis management. FEMA has frozen hires until at least the end of this year, according to three sources cited by the news agency Reuters.
Source :Skai
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