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New Bill Would Grant Lifetime Credit Monitoring to OPM Victims

A group of lawmakers are proposing that victims of last month s expansive Office of Personnel Management hack receive lifetime fraud protection and credit monitoring. If approved, the act would give the 22.5 million victims of the breach ID theft monitoring for life and insure them for losses up to $5 million. The bill could ultimately cost hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, according to Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and eight other Democrats from Maryland and Virginia. It would satisfy part of a lawsuit filed by the National Treasury Employees Union, which called for all of its members to receive lifetime credit monitoring.

Source: https://threatpost.com/new-bill-would-grant-lifetime-credit-monitoring-to-opm-victims/113782/

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