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

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.

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Assume it's all out there.

[trout007]

We had some idiot in our HR department of a US Government Agency with everyones personal information on their unencrypted laptop. Of course they left it in the back seat of their car and it was stolen. Nobody fired or demoted.

We also had our IT department send out an e-mail from a fake IP saying to follow a link to test the strength of your password. Something like 35% of the people fell for it.

Meanwhile I can't get the software I need to perform the work I am hired to do becaue I have so much crap running in the background of my machine that it's completely unstable.