Natalie Parsons reports: A Fargo woman received a letter from public housing saying she was at risk of identity theft. It was a result of a US Department of Housing and Urban Development data breach and now she’s worried for her safety. […] The Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority says almost 600,000 names and social…
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600,000 OPM data breach victims need to re-enroll in credit monitoring services
Nicole Orgrysko reports: Victims of the Office of Personnel Management’s cyber breach who enrolled in credit monitoring services with Winvale/CSID about 18 months ago will soon have to re-enroll for the same services with a new vendor. OPM will soon mail notification letters to roughly 600,000 people, whose coverage under Winvale expires Dec. 1, 2016, a…
Feds rehire contractor linked to massive OPM data breach
Nicole Duran reports: The Obama administration has rehired an outside contractor that was partly responsible for what many think was the largest theft of personal information from the government in U.S. history, even as it continues to boast of several new steps it is taking to enhance federal cybersecurity. […] One of them is Key…
Lamar Smith Seeks OPM Response on Cyber Posture, Data Breaches
See? This is why I get confused by our government. Why is the SCIENCE committee writing to OPM about its breaches? Is it just letter jealousy because every other committee has, too? I cannot think this is a good use of resources. Scott Nicholas reports: House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has asked acting Office of…
OPM discovered last year’s massive data breach, not contractor
An investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the massive Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach confirms that it was OPM who first discovered the breach, and not a contractor during the course of demonstrating its product days later. According to documents reviewed by the committee and described in a May 26 letter from Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, Brendan Saulsbury, an…
U.S. Education Dept. ripe for breach more devastating than OPM’s
Teri Robinson reports: The Department of Education is primed for a large data breach that could eclipse the one experienced by the Office of Personnel and Management (OPM), House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said last week at a Brookings Institute function. With its rich set of data, including 139 million Social Security numbers and information…