The Office of Personnel Management has said the effects of the 2015 data breach extends to the family members and contacts of 21.5 million individuals whose records were compromised, Nextgov reported Monday. Aliya Sternstein writes
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President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for about $95 million in new funding to bolster cyber threat defense of computer systems across the government, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Angela Greiling Keane writes the Obama administration
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Language in a $1.1 trillion government spending bill for fiscal 2016 would require the Office of Personnel Management to offer at least 10 years of free identity protection services to OPM hack
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The Office of Personnel Management has unveiled an online verification center for potential victims of a massive cyber attack on OPM’s federal and contractor employee background check systems. Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert wrote
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The Office of Personnel Management and the Defense Department have partnered to establish a verification center where federal and contractor employees can check whether they are affected by the OPM data breaches, Federal News
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Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, has said federal agencies have worked to resolve security flaws in their networks since he issued a binding operational directive in May, FCW reported Wednesday.
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The Defense Department is seeking permission from the Office of Management and Budget to gather minimal information about people affected by an Office of Personnel Management cyber attack. DoD said in a
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The Office of Personnel Management has begun sending notifications via U.S. Postal Service mail to federal workers and contractors affected in the data breaches at OPM systems reported earlier this year. Acting OPM
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The U.S. and China have reached an agreement to not conduct economic cyber espionage during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S. last week, USA Today reported Friday. David Jackson writes that Xi
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Federal CIO Tony Scott believes that the hacking of the Office of Personnel Management‘s databases has brought a needed sense of urgency into the government’s cybersecurity policies, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes
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