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Glitch on Department of Defense web site exposes retirees’ personal information

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Dissent

Chris Papst reports:

A “technical malfunction” is being blamed after some federal retirees had their personal information sent to the wrong people—information like Social Security Numbers and tax statements. Now, some people are terrified their identities could be stolen.

[…]

On Monday morning, the 37-year Department of Defense employee logged into her retirement account, like she often does. But this time, her information was replaced with someone else’s. When she logged in again, she got a second person’s account. She then printed it all out and called the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Read more on WJLA.  There is no notice on OPM’s web site about this incident that I can locate as of the time of this posting.

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