USPS Announces Potential Breach in Maintenance Exam 955 Materials

February 28, 2020 Recently, the Postal Service informed APWU of a potential breach in testing materials related to Maintenance Selection System Exam 955, stating the following: As a precautionary measure, a temporary hold on Exam 955 test scheduling has been issued until a full investigation has been completed. Individuals currently in process to complete testing…

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Postal Service dealing with national computer outage — hackers not involved

By Josh Hicks – February 13, 2015 Friday the 13th’s bad luck came a bit early for the U.S. Postal Service this week as a national computer outage hit the agency during a hardware installation on Thursday. USPS spokeswoman Toni Delancey said Friday that the outage, which began sometime on Thursday afternoon, has affected the…

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ALERT: USPS System Failure – Bad Financial Practice/Poor Security

URGENT MESSAGE – February 13, 2015: While in meetings with the USPS today I have been informed that computer systems have shut down since mid-afternoon yesterday. They can’t log onto computer systems or access, e-mails, etc. This also means that if the clerks logged out of POS yesterday, they can’t log on today. This would…

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China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks, Employee data compromised

The postal service began notifying employees on Monday. The agency is providing free credit-monitoring services for one year. Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the United States Postal Service, compromising the data of more than 800,000 employees. The intrusion was discovered in mid-September, said officials, who declined to comment on…

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