Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Government Still Hasn't Notified Individuals Whose Personal Data Was Hacked

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-on-the-list dept.

schwit1 writes: Months after the federal government admitted publicly that the personal data of more than 20 million government employees had been hacked they still have not sent notifications to those millions. The agency whose data was hacked, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), said the Defense Department will begin "later this month" to notify employees and contractors across the government that their personal information was accessed by hackers. OPM said notifications would continue over several weeks and "will be sent directly to impacted individuals." OPM also announced that it hired a contractor to help protect the identities and credit ratings of employees whose data was hacked. In a statement, OPM said it had awarded a contract initially worth more than $133 million to a company called Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC, doing business as ID experts, for identity theft protections for the 21.5 million victims of the security data breach. The contractor will provide credit and identity monitoring services for three years, as well as identity theft insurance, to affected individuals and dependent children aged under 18, the agency said.

2 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. Some notifications already out by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Informative

    The article summary makes it seem as if no-one has been notified, but I know at least one person who works for the federal government that was notified a week or so after the leak was revealed (and given information about the credit monitoring agency).

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:Some notifications already out by bitingduck · · Score: 3, Informative

      The first one was about 4M people, all direct USG employees. The second was at least 22M people, a very large fraction of whom are contractors who work for companies of various sizes and need regular access to USG facilities or sensitive information. It's more significant information about many more people, and they've done pretty much nothing about it other than blame China for doing exactly the same thing the the US would have done (and may have...)