US Postal Service announces theft of data from its computer systems

Washington

THE Postal Service became the latest US government agency to announce a major theft of data from its computer systems, telling its employees that an attack "potentially compromised" databases containing postal employees' names, birth dates, addresses and Social Security numbers.

The announcement on Monday came just weeks after the White House disclosed an intrusion into its unclassified computer systems, which resulted in a shutdown of some of its communications while the malicious software was being removed.