12 months of milestones for OPM cybersecurity

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12 months of milestones for OPM cybersecurity

Since the Office of Personnel Management's first announcement on June 4, 2015 that the personal information of millions of current and former federal employees had...

Meredith Somers

June 7, 2016 5:08 am

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June 4, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management announced that the personally identifiable information (PII) of 4 million former and current federal employees may have been compromised by a major cyber-intrusion of its IT systems. OPM detected the intrusion using a comprehensive network monitoring plan developed with the Homeland Security Department.

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