Us Office Of Personnel Management Data Breach
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Us office of personnel management data breach. The catastrophic data breach of the federal office of personnel management opm which exposed the personal information of more than 22 million current and former employees became public in mid. The office of personnel management opm breach in june 2015 was a big wake up call to our federal government and in its wake a number of initiatives were launched to improve the government s. In 2015 opm announced two separate but related cybersecurity incidents that have impacted the data of federal government employees contractors and others.
On april 15 2015 a network engineer noticed a strange signal emanating from the us office of personnel management. Opm said as many as four million people could be affected. On june 21 the u s.
Opm and the interagency incident response team have concluded. Significantly the story of these two intrusions stretches back to as early as spring of last year. In june 2015 the united states office of personnel management opm announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people.
Office of personnel management opm did not follow rudimentary cyber security recommendations that could have mitigated or even prevented major attacks that compromised sensitive data belonging to more than 22 million people a congressional investigation being released on wednesday has found. Office of personnel management and its partners across government are committed to delivering high quality identity protection services to those impacted by this incident. The united states office of personnel management opm has recently been in the news for two separate breaches that may have compromised the information of as many as 18 million former current and prospective federal employees.
This includes records of people who had undergone background checks as well as their friends and family many of whom were not government employees. Court of appeals for the d c. That was just the tip of the iceberg.
Start of article visually open nav. The office of personnel management said that in response to the data breach it had contracted with the company csid to provide services to the current and former federal workers who had their personal information stolen. The final estimate of the number of people impacted is 22 1 million.