Jun 25th

Federal-Postal Coalition Demands Immediate Communication and Long-Term Credit Monitoring on OPM Data Breach

June 25, 215 The Federal-Postal Coalition is comprised of national organizations that collectively represent 5 million federal and postal workers and retirees. The Federal-Postal Coalition sent a letter to President Obama today expressing disappointment with communication surrounding the breaches and asked for swift action to be taken to protect highly personal data. […]

Jun 25th

Federal Union says OPM offered protections only to limited number of affected individuals

June 23, 2015 Washington, D.C.—The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) should immediately offer free credit and identity theft protection to all federal employees following the recent cyberattacks, which compromised the personal and financial details for an unknown number of current and former workers, the leader of National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) told a Senate panel […]

Jun 9th

Q & A: Will OPM credit monitoring run concurrent with USPS offer?

The following is a question from PostalReporter.com reader: OPM announced that “If you’re a current or former Federal employee eligible to receive CSID’s Protector Plus coverage, you will receive a notification via email or the U.S. Postal Service beginning Monday, June 8, 2015. Notifications will be delivered over the course of the following two weeks. […]

Jun 8th

OPM to offer data breach affected Federal Employees 18 months of credit monitoring

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data that may have exposed the personal information of Federal personnel. Since the incident was identified, OPM has partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to determine the impact to […]

Nov 24th

Equifax tips to help keep personal and financial info secure following data breaches

Several days ago USPS posted a reminder that a personalized letter from the PMG was recently sent to postal employees’ home address following the cyber intrusion into some USPS information systems. The letter was also sent to postal employees who left USPS after May 2012. According to USPS the letter, which was sent via First-Class […]