A former supervisor working for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency downloaded confidential information on portable computer storage devices that haven’t yet been recovered, the agency said Friday in a statement.
Before retirement, the employee downloaded information about the regulator’s activities and some personal information about staff members, the OCC said. The November 2015 breach by the unidentified supervisor was discovered last month in a review of agency security matters, and the former employee was unable to find and turn over the devices.
The information downloaded was controlled but not classified, the OCC said, and it’s encrypted to make it difficult to access by outsiders. The agency has no evidence that the employee shared the data with anyone.
Since the incident, the OCC said it adopted policies that prevent such information to be downloaded to personal devices known as thumb drives.
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