OPM Cyber Breach
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Tune in to FEDtalk this week for a discussion with representatives of federal employee organizations on Congress. Guests will discuss legislation that affects the federal workforce and government, the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches, budget reconciliation and the fate of this year's appropriations bills.
July 09, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management announced today that 21.5 million people were affected by the second breach of its background investigation databases. This includes 19.7 million people who applied for a background check, as well as another 1.8 million people whose personal information was included on clearance applications, such as spouses.
July 09, 2015 -
FBI Director James Comey said the White House is about to release a final tally describing the number of people whose personal data was compromised in the OPM cyber breach. The agency has offered 18 months of free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection to the 4.2 million federal employees affected by the first breach in the agency's personnel database. But it's remained quiet about who has been affected by a second, larger breach.
July 09, 2015 -
The National Treasury Employees Union announced Wednesday it was suing OPM, saying the agency violated the constitutional rights of union members.
July 08, 2015 A second federal employee union is suing the Office of Personnel Management over the two recent cybersecurity breaches. The National Treasury Employee Union files a lawsuit in federal court today. NTEU says OPM violated its members' constitutional rights by not protecting their personal and private information. Colleen Kelley is the union's national president. She explains her union's decision to take OPM to court.
July 08, 2015-
The National Treasury Employees Union sues the Office of Personnel Management over the agency's recent cyber attacks. NTEU says OPM violated its members' informational privacy rights. It filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Carrie Cordero is a lawyer and adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and former counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security. She tells In Depth co-host Jared Serbu that OPM's recent cyber breaches have raised a few different privacy questions.
July 08, 2015 -
The Homeland Security Department is rushing to give civilian agencies tools to share information about cybersecurity threats nearly as they happen, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Wednesday.
July 08, 2015 -
Katherine Archuleta's recent time in the congressional hot seat is a wake-up call for all agency executives. Chief information officers that oversee cyber at their agencies are scrambling to meet the 30-day cyber sprint imposed by Federal Chief Technology Officer Tony Scott. Steve Cooper is the chief information officer at the Commerce Department. He tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller why now is the opportunity for the entire agency to look at the way it does cyber.
July 07, 2015 -
Commerce CIO Steve Cooper says his department is moving proactively to identify cybersecurity risks and eliminate vulnerabilities.
July 07, 2015 Recent cybersecurity embarrassments at the Office of Personnel Management, the White House and the State Department have cybersecurity experts wondering how the government became so vulnerable. Their response: it hasn't always been this way.
July 07, 2015Charlie Allen and Terry Roberts of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance give their thoughts on the OPM breach and what agencies can do to protect themselves from future attacks. July 3, 2015 (Encore presentation July 10, 2015)
July 06, 2015-
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) wants the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general to investigate the full-suite of systems OPM uses to store personal background investigation information.
July 06, 2015 More information on the size of the second breach at the Office of Personnel Management will likely come this week. GovExec reports the agency will release the number of current and former federal employees -- and job applicants -- affected in the second cyberattack. Jeff Neal is senior vice president of ICF International and former chief human capital officer for the Homeland Security Department. He tells Depth with Francis Rose that the OPM data breach is far from over.
July 06, 2015-
With the e-QIP system shutdown for four-to-six weeks, OPM and ODNI told agencies to get hard copies of the forms from new hires, or employees or contractors needing reinvestigations.
July 03, 2015 -
The Office of Personnel Management cyber breaches are pushing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to encourage agencies to move to the Einstein program. That program is billed as a way to uncover intrusions. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, is working on the bill along with the chairman of the Committee, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Carper tells In Depth with Francis Rose why he and Senator Johnson think the bill is necessary and what they want it to accomplish.
July 02, 2015