11/20/2014 – New revelations about the security breach in the Postal Service’s data systems are raising additional concerns about this very troubling incident. The APWU remains fully committed to protecting the rights of our members and demanding information from the USPS about what management knew and when they knew it.
Unfortunately, it appears the breach was worse than originally thought. Apparently, information regarding OWCP records that were shared with the Department of Labor exposed medical records, bank account and routing information for tens of thousands of employees and retirees. The Postal Service plans to issue follow-up letters to those impacted by the latest findings shortly.
Because the Postal Service has refused to bargain in good faith and continues to take unilateral action in response to the data breach, the APWU is pursuing the unfair labor practice we filed on Nov. 10 with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) and the National Rural Letter Carriers (NRLCA) have also filed charges.
The APWU is committed to protecting the rights of our members and will do whatever is necessary to make sure our members are protected and made whole for any damages suffered as a result of the security breach – now and in the future.
We are working with our sister unions to ensure that postal employees and retirees receive the information you need and that every effort is made to protect you.
I will continue to be personally involved and will keep you posted as more information is obtained.
– See more at: http://www.apwu.org/news/web-news-article/follow-statement-apwu-members-president-mark-dimondstein#sthash.JZURople.dpuf
Just have a credit freeze put on all 3 credit reporting agencies.
Of course the USPS is acting unilaterally as they try to cover their sorry asses and destroy incriminating data. Does anybody besides the dumbest manager really think Donahoe and the chief of postal intranet security “retired” when they did just as a coincidence? I know the USPS considers the employees to be extremely stupid, but …. They are responsible for the possible destroying of credit, as the first posts indicate, among other personal information that there was no excuse for allowing to be breached.
We employees got a “frequently asked questions” paper from USPS, and it was your usual insult to your intelligence. Painting themselves as poor hapless victims, the “questions” were fabricated by their own PR goons. Among the excuses was declaring waiting to make the cyber attack known to employees was in our best security interest. Why don’t you stop trying to bs us? I don’t believe a word you say, and I doubt anybody else does either unless it’s management that’s ordered to tow the company PR spin. But their personal information has been compromised too, and they have the right and duty to sue the s.. out of you just like the craft does.
I hope in addition to the NLRB complaints, somebody succeeds in getting a nationwide class action lawsuit against Donahoe and L’Enfant Plaza. The fallout from this travesty will be felt for years.
GEEZ Louise, ISSA NO body watching the store ?
Everyone on OWCP/Retiree’s better get down to their banks and cancel their checking accounts and savings acct’s. Then open new ones….First thing in the morning.
NOW,
Why does any of our govt. have these computers on 24/7, and why are they connected to an open internet ? What reason. If the personnel needed to use an open unsecured internet/laptop, then why not do this work on a open browser, and keep the employee’s info (work info) on a closed system. Please do not tell me this is too much work or expense to have a sep/ closed system…. Just like the break in at the White House, they actually had their systems operating on an open unsecured, or not secured enough internet…..What gives……