"Rather, OPM is taking this step proactively...to ensure the ongoing security of its network." The background form system, known as E-QIP, will undergo security enhancements while it is offline ...

On June 29, the OPM announced that it is shutting down its Web-based e-QIP system for doing background checks on potential employees. The shutdown of the e-QIP system is a result of a ...

The government is electronically accepting security clearance forms for background checks again. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which handles the security clearance process for federal ...

The Office of Personnel Management is still coping with the loss of ownership of the background check function for the federal government as a consequence of the devastating 2015 hack that ...

The Office of Personnel Management brought the system to apply for security clearance background checks back online Thursday. OPM took the Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing ...

The other breach involved some 4.2 million federal employee personnel records, including identifying information, educational background, work histories and similar career information.

There was overlap in the breaches: About 3.6 million people whose data were compromised in the smaller personnel records breach also had records taken in the larger background check hack ...

The Defense Department will now secure the millions of background check forms that were exposed this summer during the hacks at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The change was revealed ...

OPM is conducting market research to find companies that can perform automated social media tracking and other types of Web crawling as part of the background investigation process, according to ...

When the National Background Investigation Bureau — the agency the Obama administration created in the wake of the massive Office of Personnel Management hack — stands up next month, it will inherit a ...

OPM serves as the central hub for coordinating background checks on would-be clearance holders. After the theft of 21.5 million records on security clearance applicants and their families ...

Potential government employees and contractors will not be able to fill out their background questionnaires online for up to six weeks, the Office of Personnel Management announced on Monday.