FEMA workers put on leave after signing letter criticizing Trump leadership
Several FEMA workers have been placed on leave after signing a scathing letter to Congress criticizing President Trump’s leadership.
Straight Arrow News
WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Friday she fired two dozen members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) IT department, citing “massive cyber failures.”
“While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network,” the DHS said in a statement.
“The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.”
No Americans were directly impacted and no sensitive data was extracted from any DHS networks, the statement added.
