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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 04:49 PM Aug 2015

Cheating website subscribers included WH, Congress workers

WASHINGTON — An Associated Press analysis of hacked data from the cheating website Ashley Madison shows that subscribers to the online service included hundreds of U.S. government civilian and military employees. Some had sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies.

The AP's investigation found that subscribers included at least two assistant U.S. attorneys, an IT administrator in the Executive Office of the President, a division chief, an investigator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department, a government hacker at the Homeland Security Department and another DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. counterterrorism response team.

The AP traced their government Internet connections.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/cheating-website-subscribers-included-wh-congress-workers/ar-BBlVOD7?ocid=mailsignout

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hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
1. they were not using their home computers? how dumb is that?
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 04:51 PM
Aug 2015

Inever used my office computer for anything because as a manager I got a monthly report on what ever web pages my staff looked at,Did not want to hear anything about what I looked at from my boss. I had to let a good person go because they spent too much time on the internet. Order came from high up.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
3. Funny, this feels like the mirror image of that in a way.
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 04:54 PM
Aug 2015

It's stupid to use work emails for personal things, and it's stupid to use personal email for work things. People really need to figure out how this works

 

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)
5. The data are compromised
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:13 PM
Aug 2015

Who is to say the "hackers" did not inject such records into their petty little dump?

 

HFRN

(1,469 posts)
6. Larry Craig taps his foot in laughter
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:14 PM
Aug 2015

seems staying home safe behind a computer screen isnt so safe after all

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
8. Anyone working in a sensitive position in the WH and other government agency and the Congress should
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:19 PM
Aug 2015

be fired out right. No exceptions, no excuses.

It not only indicates a level of immorality but an astonishing level of stupidity! Let the chips fall where they may. The upper levels of the military are no exception...as Petraeus has proved.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. Anyone who uses a work computer for this kind of crap
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:20 PM
Aug 2015

deserves all the shit that is going to stick to them.

Jeebus, how dumb can people get?

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
10. The thing I don't like is drip, drip, drip
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:30 PM
Aug 2015

We are going to hear various stories about this for the next year and names will be mentioned slowly to make this as tedious as possible. I would like one huge story with names and let the chips fall. So far only josh duggar and I'd bet this is just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
11. You would think DHS folk would know better
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 05:30 PM
Aug 2015

which just goes to how all the security BS is just theatre perpetuated by completely incompetent people who are one step away from signing over their bank account to Nigerian princes.

bluedigger

(17,087 posts)
12. I can accept the run of the mill dumbasses using their government email accounts.
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 06:20 PM
Aug 2015

But an IT administrator and a government hacker?

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