Crime, Federal Government

FYI: If You Worked For The Government, Your Identity May Have Been Stolen

This holiday season, the Office of Personnel Management is giving you the gift of free identity theft monitoring. Yay?

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If you’re a law student or an attorney who’s ever externed, interned, or worked full-time for any federal government agency or court, you likely recently received a surprising present in the mail from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This holiday season, OPM is giving you the gift of free identity theft monitoring. Yay?

Back in June, OPM announced that it had been hacked, and millions upon millions of people’s records were involved in the data breach. OPM first realized that something was amiss in April 2015, but the data breach itself had started in March 2014 — or possibly even earlier. If a government agency not noticing criminal activity of this magnitude for more than a year’s time doesn’t make you feel proud to be an American, then we don’t know what will.

I was lucky enough to work as an unpaid intern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts, in the summer of 2008. Seven years later, this is what I received:

Happy holidays, everyone! Rejoice in the fact that thanks to law school, you may be so indebted that someone would have to be crazy to want to steal your identity.

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