10/16/2015 – The APWU is discouraging union members from participating in a voluntary program established by the Postal Service that creates an online database of their health records, APWU President Mark Dimondstein has announced. “Last year’s cyber attack on the Postal Service demonstrates the danger in posting sensitive personal information in an online database maintained […]
Law Firm Labaton Sucharow Files Class Action Against U.S. Office of Personnel Management for “Most Devastating” Cyber Attack More than 20 million people affected by multiple cyber breaches NEW YORK (August 14, 2015) — Labaton Sucharow LLP filed a class action today against the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and KeyPoint Government Solutions […]
Follows two data hacks exposing personal information of close to 25 million July 9, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement: “The technological and security failures at the Office of Personnel Management predate this director’s term, but Director Archuleta’s slow […]
July 9, 2015 – Yesterday OPM announced: In the coming months, the Administration will work with Federal employee representatives and other stakeholders to develop a proposal for the types of credit and identity theft monitoring services that should be provided to all Federal employees in the future – regardless of whether they have been affected […]
Katherine Archuleta, OPM Director’s Blog July 4, 2015 As our hardworking Federal workforce enjoys a much-deserved holiday weekend, I want to share a quick update on the ongoing investigation into the recent theft of information from OPM’s networks. For those individuals whose data may have been compromised in the intrusion affecting personnel records, we are […]
After witnessing the Sony cyberattacks, we should be grateful for the U.S. Postal Service- Susan Milligan 12.23.14 The Postal Service gets slammed for reasons that are not only unfair but terribly naïve. It is dismissed as financially troubled – a claim that is not really true, since the service is alone in having the absurd […]