The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced on Monday that an investigation is underway – led by the FBI and joined by other federal and postal investigatory agencies – with regard to a cyber security intrusion into some of its information systems.

More than 800,000 USPS employees may be affected, including those that work for USPS’ regulator, the Postal Regulatory Commission, as well as for the Postal Inspection Service and the Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG), David Partenheimer, manager of media relations with the USPS, told SCMagazine.com in a Monday email correspondence.

The employee information that may have been compromised includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, beginning and end dates of employment and emergency contact information, according to a release issued on Monday by Partenheimer, which adds that other information may have been affected as well.

The incident also affected call center data, the release indicated. Customers who made telephone or email inquiries to the Postal Service Customer Care Center between Jan. 1 and Aug. 16 may have had information compromised, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other information.

“The number of customers impacted by calling the Customer Care Center is under investigation,” Partenheimer told SCMagazine.com. “No social security information was involved in those cases.”

The source of the attack is currently under investigation, Partenheimer said, but The Washington Post reported on Monday that Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the USPS.

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