800 000 Postal Service employees data compromised

The United States Postal Service is the latest victim of a wide-scale online data breach.

A USPS spokesman told NPR today that more than 800,000 employees may have been affected. In a statement, USPS said “names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, beginning and end dates of employment, emergency contact information” may have been compromised.

USPS says customers were affected as well. Although the service couldn’t provide an exact number, it did say customers who contacted their Postal Customer Care Center via phone or email between Jan. 1, 2014, and Aug. 15, 2014, might be vulnerable.