Posted on 07/09/2015 10:34:34 PM PDT by Nachum
July 9, 2015 The Office of Personnel Management announced Thursday that a breach of a database that contained federal employees' background-check information led to the theft of 21.5 million individuals' Social Security numbers. And the personnel agency said it would notify the affected individuals and supply them with at least three years of credit monitoring and identity-fraud protection services.
But it has not yet awarded a contract for the notifications or fraud-protection services, or even put out a request for contractors to respond to, according to multiple sources.
OPM press secretary Sam Schumach said Thursday night he was not aware of a request out to contractors, and no such request appeared in an online government repository of contracts and awards.
"OPM hasn't announced a partner for the second set of notifications," said Helen Murphy, account supervisor at INK Public Relations, which represents CSID, the company that provided those services for a smaller OPM hack that was announced in June.
CSID was awarded a contract for more than $20 million in early June to notify the 4.2 million individuals who were affected by a breach of OPM employee files and provide them with 18 months of identification-fraud protection services. Two days after the contract was awarded, OPM publicly announced the breach, and affected federal employees began receiving notifications the next week.
OPM, however, has not reached out to CSID about providing the same services for this second, much larger breach, according to a person with knowledge of the contractor's relationship with the government.
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Same here...... crazy.
However, the main reason the Chinese want the information is to look for people they can blackmail or entice into spying for them.
We don't. This hack includes current, former, and prospective federal employees, as well as contractors. I haven't found any sources that say state/local employees were included. But it's likely state National Guards would be included. The actual current federal employment is about 4.1 million, which includes military and civilian employees under each of the three branches.
In 2014, the breakdown was approximately 2.66 million civilian employees of the Executive Branch, 1.46 million in the Armed Services, and about 63,000 working for the Legislative and Judicial Branches.
The reality is all federal employees' data was breached. So yes, that would include the IRS.
The list is all federal employees, including military, and even prospective applicants and contractors, for several years back. We only have about 4.1 million federal employees (of which 1.66 million are military), so yes, 18+ million is all of them and more.
Sorry, that’s 21+ million total affected, not 18+, and the military is 1.46 million current (as of 2014), not 1.66.
In the current environment if an illegavl “borrows” your SSN the lazy SSA and IRS employees treat you like you are liars and won’t lift a finger to right the wrong. Most are minorities so they aren’t very helpful with whites at all. So if their identity gets stolen I hope it gives them new perapective.
There’s already a big problem in the CSID plan: I’ve talked to people who work in the NSA, CIA, DOD, and NONE have received the code yet with the free 18 month monitoring.
What’s not to like about a bunch of government parasites getting their info stolen?
They could care less about you or I’s info being stolen why should I care about theirs?
I could care less about those pukes.
Man, it would be a shame if we had to fire and blacklist all of the politician and bureaucrat ones and start with new people... ;-)
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