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How do people take advantage of this 18 months of monitoring? My wife and I are almost certainly in the impacted population (and the fact that we've had 4 separ
by engi_nerd 11y ago
How do people take advantage of this 18 months of monitoring? My wife and I are almost certainly in the impacted population (and the fact that we've had 4 separate fradulent activities on our accounts in the past month isn't helping...)
- scrapcode 11y agoI was sent an e-mail to my .gov address with a code to signup for the service.
- mirimir 11y agoSadly enough, that would be an obvious phishing ploy.
- engi_nerd 11y agoI'm a former fed...If what I'm hearing is true and they got access to SF86 data on EVERYONE then we are all screwed. Just from that alone the attackers would be able to build a huge map of all sorts of programs that the government has not acknowledged.
- mokus 11y agoAccording to the OPM's web site[0], notifications for the first breach they announced have been completed, and notifications for this newly announced one have not yet begun (see the end of bullet point 2). I don't believe they have officially decided yet what sort of remedy they will offer either - I'm really hoping it'll be a lot more than the 18 months they offered for the first one. A period measured in decades would be more appropriate. [0]https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/ https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/