MONTPELIER, Vt. — The $508 million New England Credit Union, headquartered in Williston, Vt., has begun fielding member calls as the Vermont State Government announced that one of its servers that contained personal information for about 70,000 current and former Vermonters has been compromised.
The Vermont Agency for Human Services is confirming that one of its computers was hacked by an automated computer program that seeks out security weaknesses, according to stories in the local media.
State officials have said that they cannot tell whether the data had been compromised or not.
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