Data Breach

Federal judge finalizes $63M settlement for OPM data breach victims

Victims of one of the largest data breaches to ever hit the federal government are one step closer to a payout, more than seven years later.

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VA data breach also hit 17,000 community care providers, senators say

Veterans Affairs

VA data breach exposes personal information for 46,000 veterans

Veterans Affairs

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2020 file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. Esper said Tuesday he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East more broadly. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Defense employee unions on Trump administration radar

Federal Newscast

DISA exposes personal data of 200,000 people

Defense News

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. Hackers have gained access to OneLogin, an online password manager that offers a single sign-on to multiple websites and services. The breach raises questions about the security of other accounts kept with OneLogin. According to published reports, OneLogin informed customers that the breach included the ability to access encrypted data; passwords are typically stored that way. OneLogin didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

443 federal data breaches in 5 years, and not all by hackers

Federal Drive

Vendor risk management & federal IT

Federal Tech Talk

A chart of data breaches is shown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, as witnesses testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform committee's hearing on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

At least eight agencies are at risk for major data breach

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this March 29, 2019, file photo, vehicles line up to enter the U.S. from Mexico at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas. Customs and Border Protection said Monday, June 10, that photos of travelers and license plates collected at a single U.S. border point have been exposed in a malicious cyberattack in what a leading congressman called a

Customs says hack exposed traveler, license plate images

U.S. Customs and Border Protection service says images of travelers and license plates have been exposed in a cyberattack

Cybersecurity

Plan to give civilian federal employees pay raise gets more Congressional support

In today’s Federal Newscast, Senate Democrats have brought forth a companion to a new bill from House Democratic leaders, which calls for giving civilian…

Federal Newscast

NASA suffers breach of employee data

Cybersecurity

The space agency says hackers got into a server containing personal data, including social security numbers, and stole data.

Data Breach

Federal judge finalizes $63M settlement for OPM data breach victims

The government’s people agency has a growing task list of its own

Federal lawsuit over 2015 OPM breach seems all but wrapped up

Two large government conference organizers suffer data breach

VA data breach also hit 17,000 community care providers, senators say

VA data breach exposes personal information for 46,000 veterans

Defense employee unions on Trump administration radar

DISA exposes personal data of 200,000 people

443 federal data breaches in 5 years, and not all by hackers

Vendor risk management & federal IT

At least eight agencies are at risk for major data breach

Customs says hack exposed traveler, license plate images

Plan to give civilian federal employees pay raise gets more Congressional support

NASA suffers breach of employee data