US federal agency that manages the civil service workforce and holds background investigation files used for security clearances.
Four leaders of Trump's Super Intelligence task force meet Thursday to set its agenda, with a report on AI risks due within 120 days. Its mandate avoids heavy regulation, and at least five members hold AI or tech investment ties.
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WIRED found at least two National Design Studio members are employed by a nonprofit that appears to be run by SpaceXAI's general counsel. That arrangement makes it hard for the public to tell who the people redesigning federal websites answer to.
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IRS privacy chief Kathleen Walters had to contain the risk of 100,000 staff answering OPM's February 2025 email asking what they did last week. In the Guardian's account, the all-staff order landed first on the office built to stop disclosure.
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Pentagon officials are telling 2.8 million living people that hackers took their personnel records, occupational specialty included. At least 1.5 million of them are not on active duty, so the exposure reaches well beyond the active force a month after a similar FBI breach.
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TSA has confirmed it is removing all chairs from the document-checker stations at airport checkpoints nationwide. Its spokesperson justified the move with fitness for duty, a standard OPM rules now let agencies use to discipline or fire staff.
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ShinyHunters says the two to three terabytes it took from the FBI include psychiatric and medical evaluations of bureau staff. Beside a Reuters sample tying named staff to counterintelligence jobs, those files are exposure no password reset can fix.
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The group says it holds two to three terabytes of FBI employee records and will publish them unless the bureau pulls language from a May 15 public service announcement about its tactics. The FBI says it is investigating.
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Payroll data shows federal administrative leave spending rose 435% between 2023 and 2025 to $9.5bn. OPM's director calls that a one-time expense and claims $40bn a year in savings. Agencies are already backfilling more than 20,000 of the vacated roles.
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Krebs On Security watched the database grow by nearly 400,000 records in one day, matching Nexus's own claim of more than a year of continuous exfiltration from an identity verification company.
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