The Office of Personnel Management has been sending some 800,000 letters a day since Sept. 30, alerting current, former and prospective federal employees and family members that their information was compromised in a network breach last year.
That initial effort wrapped up on Dec. 11 with about 93 percent of notifications sent through traditional mail.
OPM is encouraging people who think they might have been affected by the breach but failed to receive a letter to reach out through a new online portal, launched on Dec. 1 with support from the Department of Defense.
Affected persons who received a letter and lost their PIN can also use the portal to obtain a new one.
The letters outline the known timeline of events and how those affected can get credit monitoring and fraud protections for the next three years.
Also, to avoid potential fraud, OPM urged recipients to compare their letters to ones posted on the agency’s website to ensure authenticity. Any discrepancies should be reported to the Federal Trade Commission.
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