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Reasons to Be Fearful: Fed Workers Warned of Future OPM Hacking Threat

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 11/18/16

The 2015 hacking of the Federal Government’s Office of Personnel Management, which put the personal data for millions of current and former Federal employees at risk, may be out of the headlines but is still a cause for anxiety for the victims, according to union lawyers who represent them.

“In addition to the sweeping breaches that have already occurred, there is a real threat that OPM’s systems will be breached again,” said Paras N. Shah, assistant counsel for the National Treasury Employees Union. “For nearly a decade leading up to the breaches announced in June 2015, OPM ignored urgent warnings of its own Inspector General concerning its deficient IT security. And in a report issued five months after the breaches were announced, the IG continued to warn that its information systems were still vulnerable to further attack.”

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