WASHINGTON - Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., which hired a former National Security Agency chief to market cybersecurity programs to the government, said some of its own files were exposed after an attack by hackers.
The files “pertained to a learning management system for a government agency,’’ the company said Tuesday. Booz Allen is conducting a full review of the incident and doesn’t believe the attack affected other data, the statement said without naming the US agency.
Booz Allen executive vice president Mike McConnell, a former Navy vice admiral who ran the NSA from 1992 to 1996, has been a leading proponent of bolstering the nation’s defenses against computer attack. McConnell “was really one of the early evangelists of cybersecurity,’’ said Richard Falkenrath, a principal at the Chertoff Group, a security advisory firm.
