OPM launches self-check website for hack victims

The government agency behind this summer’s catastrophic data breach has launched a website allowing people to check and see if their personal information was stolen in the intrusions.

More than 22 million people had their information compromised in the hacks at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), including 21.5 million people whose sensitive data was taken in a breach of the OPM’s security clearance database. The agency has struggled to quickly notify all the victims. An early November report indicated only a quarter of people have been told so far that their information was exposed.

In a Tuesday blog post, OPM Acting Director Beth Cobert said the agency was mailing out 800,000 notification letters each day and on pace to complete the entire process within the next two weeks.

The new website, which the agency is calling a “verification center,” is intended to help speed the notificatoin process even further, while helping those who already know they were affected. For the full article click here 

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