USPS settles NLRB complaint over data breach Last month APWU reported: In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last year’s massive data security breach. The incident which was revealed to the union and employees in mid-November, compromised the personal information […]
NLRB Slams Postal Service For Failure to Bargain over Employee Data Breach Complaint over Cyber Intrusion Would Set Precedent 04/08/2015 – In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last year’s massive data security breach. The incident, which was revealed […]
The U.S. Postal Service is offering all current, some retired and former postal employees an Equifax credit-monitoring service for one (1) year. USPS is offering the credit-monitoring services after a data breach compromised employees’ personal information—possibly including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, bank account (injured employees) info and even emergency contact information. […]
1.8.15 Stealing of healthcare related information is highly lucrative for the cyber criminals. Incidentally, the data servers of the United States Postal Service (USPS) were illegally tapped into in September, but the information about the crime surfaced in November. The coordinated stealth attack was earlier estimated to have resulted in almost 800,000 USPS employees having […]
1/6/2015 – Hackers who broke into the Postal Service’s information systems in September may have accessed up to 485,000 people’s medical records, the agency now says. Potential victims include current and former postal employees who filed injury compensation claims between November 1980 and August 2012. Some of those who had left the Postal Service years […]
USPS OWCP Medical File Hack Affected Nearly Half a Million Postal Workers. USPS data breach affected bank and/or medical information of postal workers injured on the job. USPS sent out individualized letters to postal employees with specific information about their particular situation. So all letters will not contain the same information. From NextGov Network intruders […]
When management declared an Information Technology (IT) emergency due to a breach of USPS data systems recently, more than 150 systems that USPS programmers develop and administer were taken offline so they could be patched and reconfigured. The programmers – who are APWU members – were on call all hours of the day and night to get the […]
USPS Cyber intrusion update does not include former, retired employees or injured on duty employees who are in non-pay status. Former employees doe not have access to the video or any current updates. USPS should have some type of protocol in place to keep former employees abreast of any new or updated information on the […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec. 19, 2014– Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores. […]
12.18.14 The Mail Handlers Union reported: In a new development on the earlier data breach at the Postal Service, USPS has now sent individual letters to another group of employees who may have had personal information compromised. USPS informed us that a large number of Workers Compensation records were “possibly” compromised, in some cases including […]