From Dark Reading – Nov. 11, 2o14

Employee VPN taken down — will not be restored until more secure version can be installed, Postal Service says after breach exposes data on 800,000 employees and 2.9 million customers.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has suspended telecommuting for employees while it works to remediate a network intrusion that has exposed data on some 800,000 postal workers and an additional 2.9 million customers.

The virtual private network (VPN) service for postal employees was taken down this weekend and will not be brought back up until a version with more robust security features can be installed, USPS spokesman David Partenheimer said in an emailed comment to Dark Reading.

“As a result, telecommuting has been suspended until further notice,” he said.