Severe weather closes, delays some Md. courts, MARC trains

March 2, 2018 Leave a comment

A MARC commuter train crossing the Edmondson Highway bridge in west Baltimore. (Maximilian Franz/The Daily Record).

Strong winds on Friday morning closed courts, stopped trains and closed federal offices in Maryland.

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Union sues feds over hack, says agency had ample warning

June 29, 2015 Leave a comment

FILE - In this June 16, 2015 file photo, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

WASHINGTON — The largest federal employee union filed a class action lawsuit Monday against the federal personnel office, its leaders and one of its contractors, arguing that negligence contributed to what government officials are calling one of the most damaging ...

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Fed agency blames giant hack on ‘neglected’ security system

June 16, 2015 Leave a comment

FILE - In this April 22, 2015 file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. When hackers broke into a database filled with the private information of U.S. security clearance holders, they likely got access to the names of foreign relatives of some of those officials who are living abroad. "It may be the single biggest breach of data that our government has ever had," said Chaffetz on the C-SPAN Newsmakers program, calling the stolen data "the most sensitive information we have." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

WASHINGTON — The agency that allowed hackers linked to China to steal private information about nearly every federal employee — and detailed personal histories of military and intelligence workers with security clearances — failed for years to take basic steps ...

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Union: All federal workers were victims in OPM hack

June 12, 2015 Leave a comment

The Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington, Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON — A major union says the cyber theft of employee information is more damaging than it first appeared, asserting that hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for 4 million current and former federal workers . The Obama ...

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Federal employees: here’s what to do about the OPM data breach

June 5, 2015 Leave a comment

It is not the first and it follows massive data breaches at health insurance companies, major U.S. banks like JPMorgan and retailers such as Target and Home Depot. Here’s what to do if you think you’ve been compromised. First things ...