Unions suing Office of Personnel Management, Katherine Archuleta for $1 billion over privacy breach

Brett T. | 12:30 AM on June 30, 2015

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NBC 4 in Washington, D.C., has reported that two unions have joined in a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management over a privacy breach that they say might have affected 14 million people.

Major union, American Federal of Government Employees, files privacy lawsuit against US Office of Personnel Management

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 29, 2015

OPM head Katherine Archuleta is named as a defendant in the suit along with chief information officer Donna Seymour. Among the plaintiffs are the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO.

In newly filed lawsuit against OPM, federal govt employee unions said "potentially 14 million employees" had info compromised in breach

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 29, 2015

So it appears major unions are suing US Office of Personnel Management for ……. $1 billion in federal privacy suit pic.twitter.com/ytChjWozDP

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 29, 2015

AFGE lawsuit against OPM in data breach seeks to be "class action" suit, up to 18 million people impacted. Contractor "Keypoint" also named

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 29, 2015

At the link below is a copy of the Lawsuit filed by AFGE against OPM. http://t.co/ji1YciHfkc

— Steven Menchel (@StevenMenchel) June 30, 2015

From 2007 to the present, the OPM, Seymour, and Archuleta — who has served as the OPM’s director since November 2013 — repeatedly failed to comply with federal law and make the changes required by the OIG’s annual audit reports. Thus the OPM failed to comply with the Privacy Act which requires federal agencies to “establish appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to insure the security and confidentiality of records and to protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to their security or integrity which could result in substantial harm, embarrassment, inconvenience, or unfairness to any individual on whom information is maintained.”

National Review’s Jim Geraghty has published a piece on “the hack who let OPM get hacked” and now finds herself a defendant in a $1 billion privacy suit.

The Hack Who Let OPM Get Hacked http://t.co/p5nvjB2tb1 pic.twitter.com/c7FHBIdEAl

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 29, 2015

@jimgeraghty I love how these people are all smiles as they lie through their teeth at all these hearings. Nothing ever happens to them.

— Caddy Wompass (@caddywompass) June 29, 2015

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