Us Office Of Personnel Management Data Breach
Significantly the story of these two intrusions stretches back to as early as spring of last year.
Us office of personnel management data breach. The final estimate of the number of people impacted is 22 1 million. Office of personnel management and its partners across government are committed to delivering high quality identity protection services to those impacted by this incident. In 2015 opm announced two separate but related cybersecurity incidents that have impacted the data of federal government employees contractors and others.
In june 2015 opm discovered that the background investigation records of current former and prospective federal employees and contractors had been stolen. Photo by diego radzinschi alm. Start of article visually open nav.
On june 21 the u s. 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. Opm and the interagency incident response team have concluded.
Office of personnel management in washington d c. On april 15 2015 a network engineer noticed a strange signal emanating from the us office of personnel management. The verification center will assist individuals who previously received a letter notifying them that their data had been impacted by the 2015 cyber incidents and.
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 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. Washington reuters the u s.
That was just the tip of the iceberg. This includes records of people who had undergone background checks as well as their friends and family many of whom were not government employees. 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.