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The largest federal employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees, filed a class action lawsuit today against the Office of Personnel Management, its director, Katherine Archuleta, its chief information officer, Donna Seymour and Keypoint Government Solutions, an OPM contractor.
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AFGE Files Class Action Lawsuit against OPM over Data Breach–> https://t.co/iybU0aYl38 pic.twitter.com/uqVK0Nf0Ip
— AFGE (@AFGENational) June 30, 2015
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OPM hit by class-action suit over breach of federal employee data http://t.co/Y5v3ruaUfq via @CIOonline
— Diplopundit (@Diplopundit) June 30, 2015
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A couple of weeks ago, we thought that the “recipe” from the OPM email notification sent to potentially affected employees via email might be copied by online scammers.
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After OPM hack, US triggered ‘phishing’ fears with notification emails to federal employees: http://t.co/0S5CIi9gVj
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) June 26, 2015
Today, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), part of part of DHS’ National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) issued an alert on phishing campaigns masquerading as emails from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) or the identity protection firm CSID.
OPM Identity-Protection Phishing Campaigns: Original release date: June 30, 2015US-CERT is aware of phishing c… http://t.co/gYMyoAUkLY
— US-CERT (@USCERT_gov) June 30, 2015
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