GSA workers informed of personal data breach
The personal information of thousands of federal workers is at risk after a General Services Administration worker mistakenly sent the names and Social Security numbers of all of the agency's 12,000 workers to a private e-mail account.
The incident occurred Sept. 16, and GSA security officials learned about it Sept. 22 in a weekly e-mail security report, a spokeswoman said. Workers first learned of the data breach in an agency-wide e-mail sent Sept. 28.
GSA would not say why it waited 12 days to inform workers of the breach. The agency is offering free credit monitoring for a year and $25,000 in identity theft insurance coverage to all workers, according to a letter sent to employees Oct. 25.
