The Office of Personnel Management has begun contacting the millions of current and former federal employees impacted by the recent data breaches. How have FedSmith.com users been impacted and what has their experience been like in signing up for the free credit monitoring being offered by OPM?
Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta has a message for federal employees: “I want to make sure that our Federal employee family knows that I continue to work each and every day to make sure that the data OPM is entrusted with protecting is secure now and for the future.”
Over the last several years Congress has been contemplating another civil service reform act. The author says that it is long overdue and explains why.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) sent a letter to OPM director Katherine Archuleta in which he expressed concerns about the quality of service being provided by the company her agency selected to provide identity theft monitoring services to federal employees whose personal data was exposed in the recent cybersecurity breach.
The Office of Personnel Management has revised its list of frequently asked questions with new information on the data breaches that hit its computer systems and compromised the personal data of current and former federal employees.
A D.C. Circuit Court lambasted OPM for asking for a three judge panel to review a single judge’s ruling without having a solid case.
Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) hit OPM director Katherine Archuleta with some heated questions on Tuesday at a House committee hearing about the recent OPM data breach.
The Office of Personnel Management has released more information about the recent cybersecurity attack and now says that more systems than previously thought have also been compromised.
Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) has introduced legislation to conduct a study of the recent cybersecurity breach on the Office of Personnel Management’s computer systems in order to determine an appropriate response to the government’s apparent security problems.
OPM has released a detailed list of frequently asked questions covering important information related to the cyber breach reported last week.
