[2ndDivisionVet]

Remember: President Nixon had to resign to avoid impeachment for much less than Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton do in a long weekend.

[Ronin]

Democrat corruption and stupidity doesn’t count.

[Secret Agent Man]

Remember when Presidents fired people over gross incompetence like this, and the opposing side started investigations into this kind of gross incompetence and secuirty failures?

Remember when those that “serve” actually gave a sh1t about their fellow citizens they work for?

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Wow! Making personal data of millions of Americans available to the Chi-Coms.. first our corporate technology, know how, and billions of dollars of investments.. now this! That's really free tradin'.

Are they sure it's simply as described.. just a little something they let slide..

and not that IT work was outsourced to Red China or H1-B contractors from Red China got contracts in Washington?

[JohnBrowdie]

people are overlooking a pretty terrifying possibility. if they had access to those systems for a YEAR, they may not have merely stolen data. they may have altered data, in which case the second or third most significant database in the entire federal government is complete crap.

think about that one for a minute.

[Berlin_Freeper]

One year and counting.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[factoryrat]

Nothing that Infosys or Wipro can’t fix, right? Because the US has a shortage of “qualified” IT workers. That pesky free trade bites you in the ass yet again.

[CurlyDave]

This could be even worse than you think.

Not only could the Chinese compromise lots of people, and gain lots of secret information, the right cyber attacks could transfer the personal wealth of all these employees to the Chinese government.

Think for a minute what transferring even 50% of the total personal wealth of all the highest paid employees of the United States to China would do. How much material would it buy? How many fighters? How many missiles?

[LucyT]

Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year
The Washington Post's Federal Eye ^ | June 18, 2015 | Ellen Nakashima

The recently disclosed breach of the Office of Personnel Management’s security-clearance computer system took place a year ago, giving Chinese government intruders access to sensitive data for a year, according to new information.

The considerable lag time between breach and discovery means that the adversary had more time to pull off a cyber-heist of consequence, said Stewart Baker, a former National Security Agency general counsel.

“The longer you have to exfiltrate the data, the more you can take,” he said. “If you’ve got a year to map the network, to look at the file structures, to consult with experts and then go in and pack up stuff, you’re not going to miss the most valuable files.”

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"It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
-Thomas Paine

[wiggen]

If one considered this from the perspective of a battle in a war and i think its an apt comparison, then i have to admit this was a disaster. Time will tell if its our Waterloo.

[dennisw]

No one can possibly be this stupid. Someone or some people got some millions deposited in offshore accounts for their traitorous actions here. Giving ChiComs access to the Federal employees database for one year.

Mao-Tse-Tung ___ BEAM ME UP!!!

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post; ping; posts; link; thread. Critical considerations BUMP!