Eric Katz reports: Current federal employees, retirees and others impacted by widespread breach of personal data maintained by the Office of Personnel Management took advantage of only a small portion of the money made available in a settlement agreement following the 2015 hack. Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit reached a settlement in 2022 with…
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OPM breach NOT bigger than previously admitted (CORRECTED)
CORRECTION: An alert reader notified this site that NextGov had goofed in reporting that OPM had recently revealed that the breach was larger than previously reported. NextGov has retracted that part of their story and issued an Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: The original version of this article erroneously stated that the Office of Personnel Management had acknowledged for…
In wake of OPM breach, few sign up for protection services
Meredith Somers reports: Federal employees don’t think their personally identifiable information (PII) is safer than it was one year ago, but new numbers from the Office of Personnel Management show those employees are not taking advantage of the free protection offered in the wake of the massive cyber breach. About 21.5 million current and former federal…
Final notices going out this week to the 21 million people whose data was stolen in the OPM breach
Eric Yoder reports: The last of the notices are set to go out this week to the more than 21 million people whose personal information was stolen in a cyber breach of government security clearance files, with about 1.5 million of those having signed up so far for identity and credit monitoring services. Read more…
In wake of OPM breach, DoD proposes hack victim database
Roy Urrico reports: Weeks after the Federal government began sending snail mail notifications to the 21.5 million victims of the Office of Personnel Management breach, the Department of Defense proposed creating a hack victims database. The Pentagon’s proposed database, the Defense Manpower Data Center, would store the information in a “holding file,” according to an…
CIA Withdrew Officers From US Embassy In Beijing After OPM Breach: Report
Aditya Tejas reports: The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) pulled a number of officers from the American Embassy in Beijing as a precautionary measure after a massive cyberattack in June compromised the personal data of over 22 million federal employees, according to a report Tuesday. U.S. officials reportedly said the data breach was conducted by…