As PostalReporter reported yesterday, Randy Miskanic, Vice President of Secure Digital Solutions,United States Postal Service, provided a detailed timeline of the USPS Data Breach in his written testimony to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Also, PostalReporter provided a link to an earlier report […]
An article for PostalReporter (PostalReporter.com contributed to this article) On November 10, 2014, postal employees were notified of the USPS Data Breach. Now ten (10) days later postal employees are no closer to finding out what happened, why it happened and why the two month delay in making Postal Employees aware of the data breach. […]
November 19, 2014 – The NPMHU continues to press the Postal Service for answers regarding the recent data breach affecting all postal employees and some postal retirees. We have requested a meeting to determine what the Postal Service knew, when they knew it, and why the Unions and employees were not notified more promptly. We […]
The following are excerpts of written testimony by Randy Miskanic, Vice President of Secure Digital Solutions,United States Postal Service The intrusion is limited in scope and nearly all operations of the Postal Service are functioning normally. Sadly, this incident is similar to a growing number of attacks reported by many other federal government entities and […]
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Examining Data Security at the United States Postal Service, November 19, 2014, 10:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building Witness and Testimony Documents Mr. Randy Miskanic Vice President of Secure Digital Solutions United States Postal Service Mr. Guy Cottrell Chief Postal Inspector United States Postal Service Inspection […]
The chief information security officer for the United States Postal Service is leaving government for an undisclosed position in the private sector, the USPS confirmed to FedScoop Tuesday. The agency did not announce McGann’s departure date. “After 27 years of dedicated service, Chuck McGann is retiring from the Postal Service,” USPS spokesman Dave Partenheimer said […]
As previously reported, NALC is continuing to monitor the Postal Service’s response to the cyber breach that compromised a Postal Service computer file containing employees’ personal and employment information. NALC has filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board protesting the Postal Service’s failure to provide NALC advance notice of, and an opportunity to […]
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will examine the recent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) data breach during a hearing next Wednesday. The hearing was expected, as the committee’s top members have all pressed USPS for more information since the agency revealed on Monday a cyber attack that had exposed the information of 800,000 employees. […]
(November 11, 2014) The United States Postal Service (USPS) has suspended telecommuting for employees while it works to remediate a network intrusion that has exposed data on some 800,000 postal workers and an additional 2.9 million customers. The virtual private network (VPN) service for postal employees was taken down this weekend and will not be […]
November 11, 2014 – Springfield IL-First it was big box stores getting hacked for your credit card information. Now–it’s the United States Postal Service whose employees and customers– have become the latest target. “These people are so mad they, they know they can change their credit cards, they can change their pins, but they can’t […]