WASHINGTON, May 19 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is pressing for answers following public reporting that a contractor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained lists of agency accounts and passwords on a public database. Senator Hassan issued a request (https://www.hassan.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_to_cisa_re_data_security.pdf) for an urgent classified briefing from the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
"This reported incident raises serious questions about how such a security lapse could occur at the very agency charged with helping to prevent cyber bre...