The Obama administration does not expect to issue a contract until late August to provide services to those affected by the hack of security clearance records and even after that much delay–the breach was announced June 15–it remains unclear how soon after that the services will actually become available. While the services such as credit monitoring and identity theft protection will be similar to those already underway through a separate contract involving a separate breach of personnel records, the new contract will apply to far more individuals. The personnel breach affects some 4.2 million current and former federal employees, while the clearance files breach affects about 3.6 million of the same people plus about 17 million current and former contractor and military personnel and applicants. The second contract also is to provide credit monitoring and certain other services for a longer period, three years rather than 18 months, and is to be more extensive, for example including identity theft monitoring for children named in the clearance application files. Also, OPM has restarted, on a phased-in basis, use of the e-QIP electronic security clearance application system after taking it offline for several weeks to address vulnerabilities discovered in the review of IT systems following the breaches.