USPS Breach Wider Than First Reported

Social Security numbers of U.S. Postal Service employees weren't the only data to be affected in September's cybersecurity breach at USPS. The agency is now saying that the medical records of as many as 485,000 employees might also have been accessed.  USPS alerted potential breach victims -- current and past employees who filed injury compensation claims between November 1980 and August 2012 -- with individual letters explaining their specific situations.

In the Dec. 10 letter to employees, USPS Chief Human Resources Officer Jeffrey Williamson said the potentially compromised information was stored in "a file relating to injury compensation claims," which includes medical information associated with that claim. NextGov first reported on the breach of the medical files...