The Federal Government Reports a Security Breach

The Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) reported a cybersecurity breach that may have exposed Federal employees’ personal information and data. To deal with the breach, the OPM sent out contact emails beginning June 8, 2015 through June 19, 2015, notifying current and former employees of the data breach. The Federal government is offering these employees complimentary credit monitoring and recovery services for 18 months. So far, there is no indication that the personal information has been exploited by the hacker, but the largest Federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, filed a class-action negligence lawsuit against the OPM on Monday.

 While the breach may have compromised the private and personal information belonging to Social Security employees, there is no indication that any private information belonging to Social Security claimants has been accessed.

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