Recently all of the victims of the recent OPM data breach started to get letters from the organization which at first appeared to be spams but later discoveries revealed that those were in fact sent by the organization. All of the current federal employees and the retirees who got their personal data (Social security numbers and other sensitive information) compromised in the breach have been sent notifications.
All OPM data breach notified:
Six months after the breach was told about to the public, the office of personnel management made the announcement that that it has now sent letters comprising of notifications to around 94 percent of the 21 million American officers that had got their information compromised by the OPM data breach.
There were in fact two big data breaches that occurred at almost the same time and there was an incomparable loss suffered. Now that all of the employees have been informed that they need to stop worrying, the whole picture looks a little better overall.
There have been some significant changes made in the online infrastructure of the OPM system as indicated by their cyber security expert. If we keep some of the technical information out of the text, we can say that it’s less vulnerable to outsider attacks than it was when the breaches took place. These letters were intended to ensure the officers of the improvements that OPM is continually making as an organization and now that everybody has been notified, it’s expected that the tension that was building up in offices and in homes where retirement funds are an absolute necessity is going to catch a cool. Here’s hoping that these claims of rejuvenated security by OPM actually mean something and that no further data breaches can occur now that they have improved their security.
