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Here’s what we know:
The hack was seemingly focused not on nabbing customer credit cards, but on employee data. The hackers likely had access to confidential data on all 800,000 USPS employees. That includes names, social security numbers, addresses, and pretty much anything else you’d put on a job application.
Customer credit card information seemingly wasn’t exposed. However, anyone who called USPS customer support from January 1st to August 16th of 2014 might have had information stolen, depending on what information they provided to the CS rep; things like names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.
The intrusion was first detected in mid-September, nearly 2 full months before being disclosed. The USPS says this delay was because “communicating the breach immediately would have put the remediation actions in
jeopardy…”
Here’s what we know:
jeopardy…”