The top Democrat on a House panel this week criticized the U.S. Postal Service for waiting to notify employees that a recent breach of the organization’s computer network had compromised their personal information, saying the agency’s justification for the delay “doesn’t fly.” Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House postal subcommittee, said […]
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 […]
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. […]
Testifying at a House hearing, a United States Postal Service official defended the delay in notifying USPS workers of a breach that exposed employees’ Social Security numbers, contending authorities didn’t initially know what data was pilfered. The official, Randy Miskanic, also said the government didn’t want to tip off hackers that it was aware of […]
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 […]