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Oakland City Employees Face a Reckless Avalanche of Identity Theft.
Mar 27, 2023
Contact: Oakland Police Officers' Association
Phone: (510) 834-9670
Email: policeofficers@opoa.org
March 27, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oakland City Employees Face a Reckless Avalanche of Identity Theft.
Meanwhile, City Leaders Ignore and Stonewall Employees.
OAKLAND, CA – Between February 6-9, 2023, the City of Oakland experienced a cyber-attack that released all city employees’ personal information. This is the second serious breach of employee confidential information within the last two years. The Oakland Police Officers’ Association (OPOA) immediately wrote to the administration, seeking a meeting to learn the impacts on employees, how the City plans to mitigate the damage caused to its employees, and how to ensure employees’ confidential information can be safeguarded in the future. [The March 6th letter to the city administrator is attached].
The city failed to respond.
The lack of a response led the OPOA to write directly to Mayor Sheng Thao seeking a response. [The March 20th letter to the mayor is linked here].
The mayor has not responded to the OPOA’s March 20th letter.
Oakland Police Officers’ Association President Barry Donelan said: “Oakland city leaders talk about accountability, yet there has been zero accountability and a deafening silence for the safety and financial security of the city’s valued employees.” Donelan continued, “This city is truly broken when city employees learn more about the release of their confidential information from the media than their employer, whose incompetence and sloppy security allows these data breaches to occur.”
Unfortunately, continued stonewalling by our employer may leave litigation as the only recourse for victims of the City’s latest incompetence.
About the Oakland Police Officers’ Association: The Oakland Police Officers’ Association (OPOA) represents all sworn members within the Oakland Police Department. Representing the hardest working Police Officers in America. The OPOA can be found on the Web at www.opoa.org.
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