The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) may have shut down its Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (E-QIP) system as a precaution to protect against cyber breaches, but that won’t protect the government agency from lawsuits as a result of a previous attack that exposed up to 18 million workers’ data.
On June 29, the largest federal employees union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OPM, claiming that the agency’s negligence contributed to the theft of employees’ private information. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and it names OPM director Katherine Archuleta and chief information officer Donna Seymour as defendants.
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