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84,000 Hack Victims Still Not Notified

July 16, 2015

OPM logoNearly 40 days after the Office of Personnel Management divulged that attackers copied millions of government employees’ personnel records, the agency says it has alerted 98 percent of affected employees. That, however, still leaves 84,000 individuals who have not been notified that their privacy has been compromised, according to OPM statistics.

The challenge of warning 4.2 million feds about the threat to their financial and personal security raises questions about the ability to inform more than 21 million victims of another related hack of OPM background investigation files.

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Webmaster Comments: those 2.1M OPM background investigation files contain information gathered when you renewed your security clearance.

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