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Air Force continues to
work with DOD, OPM
The Air Force maintains its commitment to protect access, credit monitoring, identity theft insurance and
personal information from cyber threats by continuing recovery services, and is available immediately at no
efforts with the Defense Department and the Office of cost to affected individuals identified by OPM.
Personnel Management to assist those impacted by the
recent cyber incident involving federal background In addition to assisting OPM and DOD, the Air
investigation data. Force remains committed to protecting its own infor-
mation systems from attack. The Air Force privacy
OPM and an interagency response team, includ- and information assurance officers work directly with
ing investigators from the FBI and the Department program managers or system owners to ensure those
of Homeland Security, concluded that sensitive in- systems which contain personal identifiable informa-
formation, to include Social Security numbers, was tion have the proper security controls in place to pre-
stolen from background investigations of 21.5 million vent unauthorized access.
individuals.
There are tools and techniques everyone can and
“We sincerely regret this has happened and that should use to protect information in cyberspace.
so many people were impacted by having their key
information at risk,” said Secretary of the Air Force “I want to stress again that our total force and their
Deborah Lee James. “Cybersecurity and protecting families need to be informed on how adversaries at-
personal information of our personnel will always be tempt to gain access to our information,” said Lt. Gen.
a top priority for the Air Force. We will continue to William J. Bender, the information dominance chief
support the DOD and OPM to ensure our personnel and chief information officer for the Office of the Sec-
are protected.” retary of the Air Force. “More importantly we must be
vigilant and act to deter them: guard information by
While background investigation records do con- practicing good OPSEC (operations security), follow
tain some information regarding mental health and basic computer security practices and alert the proper
financial history provided by applicants and people security offices of anything suspicious.”
contacted during the background investigation, there
is no evidence that health, financial, payroll or retire- The Air Force has created a toolkit of information
ment records of federal personnel or those who have for cybersecurity and safety at www.af.mil/cybersecu-
applied for a federal job were impacted by this inci- rity.aspx. Additional information from OPM is avail-
dent, for example — annuity rolls, retirement records, able at https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/. This site
USAJobs.gov and Employee Express. contains details about what information was breached
and what remedial actions and assistance will be made
OPM will offer affected individuals credit monitor- available. AFNS
ing services and identity theft insurance. This compre-
hensive, three-year membership includes credit report
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