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Cyber

OPM Hack Affects Millions of Federal Employees

Friday, June 5th, 2015

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Personnel data, including personally identifiable information (PII), of four million current and former federal employees may have been stolen in a hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the government disclosed Thursday.OPM detected the cyber intrusion in April while updating its cybersecurity posture.“Based on what we know now, this intrusion into the OPM system occurred in December. As a result of the ongoing efforts by the OPM and agencies across the federal government, to update our defenses and…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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House Narrowly Votes To Pass $1.15 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA, Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0

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