Union President J. David Cox said that the data breach – which took place in 2014 but was only discovered in April – means that hackers now have federal employee and retiree social security numbers, military records, insurance information, addresses and a wealth of other personal details.
"Based on the sketchy information OPM has provided, we believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to 1 million former federal employees," Cox said.
In addition, AFGE believes the hackers also have the Social Security numbers for federal employees, Cox said.
OPM should also offer free lifetime credit monitoring and liability insurance that has no cap, J. David Cox said. OPM has offered federal employees 18 months of credit monitoring and $1 million in liability insurance.
Cox said the union will also be holding agencies to their collecting bargaining obligations, and will be issuing demands to bargain in the wake of the data breach.
"I understand that OPM is embarrassed by this breach. It represents an abysmal failure on the part of the agency to guard data that has been entrusted to it by the federal workforce," Cox said.
