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Housing Supervisory Democrats require answers on the installation of a “unknown nature and origin server” at the Personnel Management Office (OPM), which helped the agency send purchase offers to federal employees .
The letter calls for a list of employees who install the team, the authority under which they were hired and if they were facing background investigations: a look at a reddit site saying that employees said Outside the OPM they installed the server.
Server installation seems to have been a step in OPM work to set up a list of federal employees emails before offeringPurchase package “Fork on the road”To almost every employee: a brain of Elon Musk.
But when doing so, the OPM may have violated the laws that dictate how the agency must plan the use of databases with personally identifiable information.
“At best, the actions of the Trump Administration in the OPM so far demonstrate severe negligence, severe incompetence and chaotic disregard for the security of our Government data and the innumerable services that allows the Our agencies provide the audience, “said Reply Connolly’s Re -Reply Letter (Va.
“In the worst, we fear that Trump’s administration officials will be well aware that their actions will threaten to break our government and put our citizens at risk of foreign adversaries such as China and Russia who have access to our data sensitive. ”
OPM isAlready faced a dressBy virtue of the 2002 law, which requires an impact evaluation of privacy before moving forward with the creation of databases that store personally identifiable information.
The letter also seeks details on how OPM was able to set up a list of employees, which seems to be made from the existing email lists and e -mail lists. Email metadata reviewed by The Hill show several email subdomains and process affiliated with the process.
Most messages to staff are managed by each agency and the Government did not have the ability to send such distant emails before.
Democrats argue that “the acquisition of cybersecurity laws, privacy and federal hiring would not have been possible in such a short period.”
Their concerns are not hypothetical.
Employees of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration alreadyEmails receivedsinceOut of the organization.
“The lack of security and supervision associated with the new email system and data management practices threatening to expose federal workers to personalized social engineering or to” spear phishing “attacks to access government systems,” They wrote the two legislators.
OPM did not immediately respond to comments request.
The letter comes when legislators have sounded alarm on other efforts of those associated with the Government’s efficiency department to access government databases, including the Treasury Department.
