Following the data breach of current and former federal employees, including with the NCUA, security experts are questioning whether email notifications put potential fraud victims at higher risk.
The Office of Personnel Management announced on its website, "Beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19, OPM will be sending notifications to approximately four million individuals whose personally identifiable information was potentially compromised in this incident. The email will come from [email protected] and it will contain information regarding credit monitoring and identity theft protection services being provided to those Federal employees impacted by the data breach." Those without emails on file will receive snail mail letter notifications, OPM said.
A number of cybersecurity experts are perplexed about the government's utilization of email notifications.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
