WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters) - The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday.The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal purposes.

On May 12, the U.S. Department of Transportation notified Congress of a data breach affecting 237,000 current and former government employees. The compromised data pertained to TRANServe, a system for reimbursing commuting costs. So far, it is unclear who perpetrated this attack.

The department is investigating the breach and has frozen access to the transit benefit system until it has been secured and restored, it said.The maximum benefit allowance is $280 per month for federal employee mass transit commuting costs. The breach impacted 114,000 current employees and 123,000 former employees.Federal employees and agencies have been target of hackers in the past.Two breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015 compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people, including 4.2 million current and federal employees along with fingerprint data of 5.6 million of those individuals.

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