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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:15 PM Jul 2015

Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals

Source: NYT

The Office of Personnel Management revealed on Thursday that “sensitive information” of 21.5 million individuals was obtained last year by hackers who intruded into the federal personnel agency’s computer networks.

The agency said the incident was separate from, but related to, a previous breach that compromised the personnel data of 4.2 million federal employees.

The breach announced on Thursday included 19.7 million individuals who had applied for background investigations and 1.8 million others who were mostly their spouses or cohabitants.

The agency said in a statement that a forensic investigation had concluded “with high confidence” that the individuals’ information, including Social Security numbers, was stolen from background investigation databases. Some of the records included material from interviews conducted by background checkers, and about 1.1 million of them included fingerprints.

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Office of Personnel Management Says Hackers Got Data of Millions of Individuals (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2015 OP

I got my letter yesterday yeoman6987 Jul 2015 #1

LOL... odd_duck Jul 2015 #2

are you saying these employees are not ordinary citizens? CreekDog Jul 2015 #3

They do not hold themselves accountable to the same standards they enforce on others. Scalded Nun Jul 2015 #4

"Nobody at OPM to blame for massive data breach, director says" bluedigger Jul 2015 #5

No one ever is to blame n2doc Jul 2015 #6

Especially not the guys at OPM whose job title has "Network Security" in it KeepItReal Jul 2015 #7

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

1. I got my letter yesterday

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:18 PM

Jul 2015

Part of going all electronic. I suppose I will take their year offer of credit watch just in case.

odd_duck

(107 posts)

2. LOL...

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:23 PM

Jul 2015

Notice that when THEIR (government agencies) privacy is being invaded, it's a bad thing! Too bad they are not as concerned when us ordinary citizens have our Fourth Amendment rights violated by NSA/NDAA/Patriot Act......

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)

3. are you saying these employees are not ordinary citizens?

Reply to odd_duck (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:26 PM

Jul 2015

the people being affected are mostly just rank and file employees.

and you think that's funny?

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)

4. They do not hold themselves accountable to the same standards they enforce on others.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 04:35 PM

Jul 2015

The only time they really care about this is when those serviced by the government get hacked (veterans, etc.). Those hacks make for good sound-bite chest thumping by elected officials.

For this to happen to employees it is no big thing. If it were there would already be hearings, scapegoats and more.

They do not give a shit (the government, not its workers), they cannot retain people who could work these issues and those they do have on the payroll are so beaten down by the bureaucracy it is not even funny. Most systems are archaic, especially in areas of security.

Even with a solution there would have to be funding. Wait, those same elected officials will make sure that won't happen either.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)

5. "Nobody at OPM to blame for massive data breach, director says"

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2015, 05:12 PM

Jul 2015

WASHINGTON — The director of the Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday she doesn't believe anyone at her agency is personally responsible for allowing the massive hack attack that has exposed the personal information of millions of federal employees.

"If there is anyone to blame, it is the perpetrators," OPM Director Katherine Archuleta told members of a Senate panel at the first of four congressional hearings this week to examine the OPM cyber attack..

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Archuleta said the hackers breached the OPM data using security credentials from KeyPoint Government Solutions, which OPM hired to conduct background checks of current, former and prospective federal employees whose jobs require a security clearance.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/23/opm-hack-senate-archuleta-hearing/29153773/

Rinse, lather, repeat.