There have been some seriously dangerous cases of identity theft in the recent past relating to federal employees and the government has been faced with stark criticism in this regard too. The OPM data breach was the biggest illustrative of this catastrophe and there have been other small incidents in this regard too. The recent spending legislative bill passed by the congress though has expanded the ID theft protection for all the employees that were affected by the data breach.
ID theft protection expanded:
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It was high time that this step was taken by the government as the employees were getting restless and were fearing another breach if the infrastructure was not to be improved by the government. Here’s hoping that we don’t have to deal with any such predicament in the near future or ever again.