HEADS UP....FRTIB making changes

[nasa1974]

This is a must read.

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Government News, Research and Events for Federal Employees - GovExec.com

Feds: You Need to Fix Your TSP Passwords This Weekend

The federal retirement program website is changing its policy to stop giving identity ...

May 7 1 Comment

I checked both my TSP account and the FRTIB website for information and there is nothing. So much for keeping the members up to date. These FRTIB folks are clueless and have no idea what we need or want. Stay alert.

 

[Dutchy]

Just received this e-mail.
Scroll down to first paragraph. You will be prompted to update your password when you log on.


https://www.tsp.gov/whatsnew/plan/planNews.shtml#password

 

[nasa1974]

This is an interesting read. A follow up from the warning earlier in the year and the reason we are all changing our passwords.

You can find this on Govexec.com; Government News, Research and Events for Federal Employees - GovExec.com ,but it was reported by Nextgov.com; It Took Feds 13 Days to Unravel a TSP Cyber Hoax Perpetrated by... Feds - Nextgov.com

It Took Feds 13 Days to Unravel a TSP Cyber Hoax Perpetrated by... Feds
By Aliya Sternstein May 9, 2014

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"Thrift Savings Plan officials went into damage control mode in February when a stranger appropriated the TSP trademark and propped up a fake federal retirement fund website for a phishing scheme. Internal emails reveal that officials government wide struggled for two weeks to positively identify the perpetrator.
It turned out the bogus email campaign was innocuous -- part of an Army cybersecurity training exercise. But nobody bothered to tell TSP. Now the agency is buying brand management software and changing password requirements to make sure friends or foes don't do this again...."