(Cleveland) - The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland says employee files may have been compromised because someone had access to files through access of an employee email file.
The Diocese issued this statement:
The privacy and security of personal information is of the utmost importance Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, which recently learned that an unauthorized party may have obtained access to an employee email account. Upon learning this, we contained the incident and commenced a prompt and thorough investigation. As part of the investigation, we engaged third-party cybersecurity professionals to conduct a forensic investigation and review the impacted email account and the data stored within.
Following the forensic investigation, we determined that the contents of the email account were subject to access and acquisition by an unauthorized individual. We conducted an extensive manual review of the affected data and we discovered the potentially impacted data contained personal information related to employees. We provided notification of this incident via U.S. mail commencing on April 17, 2024.
For more information, please review the notice on the Diocese’s website at https://www.dioceseofcleveland.org/notice-of-data-security-incident
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