A U.S. government bureau set up to conduct investigations for secret and top-secret security clearances has turned for help to a company whose login credentials were used in hacking attacks that looted the personal data of 22 million current and former federal employees, U.S. officials said Friday.
Their confirmation of the hiring of KeyPoint Government Solutions by the new National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), a semi-autonomous entity within the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), came ahead of the bureau's official opening in the coming week.
Its creation was spurred, in part, by the same hacks of OPM that have been linked to the credentials of KeyPoint, one of four companies hired by the bureau.