Is our government going to alert those who's social security number was stolen?

2015-07-09T19:17:43-04:00

OPM says it will offer credit monitoring to those who were affected. Why not be more proactive than that? There are a lot more offensive steps that could be taken rather than monitoring. Entire families have been jeopardized because of Security Clearance applications. Are you aware of this?
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/09/us-more-than-21-million-affected-by-government-data-breach/21207433/

US: More than 21 million affected by government data breach

The Office of Personnel Management says more than 19 million who had applied for background investigations were affected.

Response by CW5 Sam R. Baker made Jul 9 at 2015 7:18 PM

2015-07-09T19:18:31-04:00

I seriously hope so, the last time this had my SSN on it, I got a year free credit monitoring! Lets hope we get notified just to be aware and that we can somehow prevent it from happening again. As for the penalties for clearances and the like, I was affected worse by the previous spouse than the thief of my PII.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 9 at 2015 7:20 PM

2015-07-09T19:20:23-04:00

Aren't they supposed to by law?

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Jul 9 at 2015 7:27 PM

2015-07-09T19:27:01-04:00

CPT Private RallyPoint Member. To be honest, I doubt that the government will be able to notify many of those affected. Since much of it involves background checks over many years and each time we had to list different references and some of those references were asked to provide other references, etc. The government may well have current information on the location and contact information for all of its current employees and many of its former employees and contractors; but, it is unlikely it keeps records on the hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who served as references whose information was compromised.