Watchdog services offered to federal employees after OPM breach

Matt Pierce
December 20, 2015

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The data breach of OPM isn’t news to anybody associated to the federal government and it was something that didn’t just have far reaching victims but it also had some far reaching consequences. Federal employees have since started to become really careful about their data and find the OPM data security protocols to be not substantially secure.

OPM data breach has wide spread effects:

There have been some really strong words said about the data breach by the people that are normally affected by such incidents. Employees of the federal government are receiving letters about how they can better their data’s security in some way as their concerns for the earlier breach continue to rise. This includes any of their personal data that encompasses but is not limited to their social security numbers, any government related information, finger prints and other sensitive exploitable details.

OPM, the office of personnel management has been sending out a lot of letters throughout the country in which they have instructed the employees to sign up for a funded watchdog service program. This program is also applicable to the families of the employees and is completely devoid of any costs for the initial 3 years.

In this regard, they have also released an alert that is applicable to all the employees. Currently there are people and organizations that are offering free services in exchange of some information. These are scammers and should be avoided at any cost. The organization has further raised their concern and said that even though they are not familiar with any data breaches, they will make it their sole aim to ensure that no more data gets compromised. Here’s hoping that they live up to their claim and the feds can for a change, forget about worrying for their personal data.