The Postal Service announced this morning that employee and customer data had been hacked, and they began remediation this weekend. They said that no customer financial information was involved. The FBI is leading the investigation and some web sites or systems used by customers may have been or will be temporarily shut down during the remediation. Here are some news reports:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10/us-postal-service-hacked_n_6133032.html
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/11/10/china-suspected-of-breaching-u-s-postal-service-computer-networks/
• http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/11/10/us-postal-service-post-office-hacked/18795289/
• http://www.zdnet.com/hackers-hit-us-postal-service-networks-employee-data-grabbed-7000035609/
• http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/10/politics/postal-service-security-breach/
• http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/10/us-cybersecurity-usps-idUSKCN0IU1P420141110
• http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/223507-report-china-behind-postal-service-hack
• http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/10/postal-service-confirms-security-breach-chinese-govt-hackers-reportedly/