By Daniel Chaitin – October 10, 2015 Less than a year after a hack affected nearly 1 million U.S. Postal Service employees, a watchdog report finds that a quarter of USPS employees are still duped into clicking scam email links. Additionally, 93 percent of the employees that clicked the phishing links did not report it…
Audit Report – IT-AR-15-008 – 07/17/2015 Cybersecurity is the body of processes, practices, and technology designed to protect networks, computers, programs, and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access. In November 2014, the U.S. Postal Service announced a significant cyber intrusion had occurred that compromised large amounts of data. This report addresses cybersecurity functions of…
July 4, 2015 As our hardworking Federal workforce enjoys a much-deserved holiday weekend, I want to share a quick update on the ongoing investigation into the recent theft of information from OPMâs networks. For those individuals whose data may have been compromised in the intrusion affecting personnel records, we are providing credit monitoring and identity…
Web News Article #: 130-2015 06/22/2015 – The recent announcement by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of a second major breach of data on âcurrent and former employees of the federal government whose records OPM managesâ could affect many APWU members, said Retirees Department Director Judy Beard. âOPM manages the records of postal retirees,…
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Complaint against the Postal Service alleging that it violated federal labor law by failing to bargain with the National Rural Letter Carriersâ Association (NRLCA) and provide information to the NRLCA concerning last yearâs massive Postal Service data breach. The Complaint, issued on March 31,…
Complaint over Cyber Intrusion Would Set Precedent For Immediate Release 04/08/2015 – WASHINGTON â In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last yearâs massive data security breach. The incident, which was revealed to the union and employees in mid-November,…
The deadline for employees to sign up for the free credit-monitoring service offered by the Postal Service is Wednesday, March 31. Employees are encouraged to register for the service, which USPS offered following a cyber intrusion into some postal information systems last year. After the incident, USPS mailed employees letters containing an activation code for…
Network intruders compromised health information on current and former U.S. Postal Service employees who filed for workersâ compensation, USPS officials say. The files were accessed during a previously reported September cyber intrusion that netted the Social Security numbers of about 800,000 USPS employees. Details of the health data breach are just now being revealed for the first time….
