Posted on 07/09/2015 12:36:23 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The federal personnel agency will announce Thursday that a breach of OPM data revealed the information of 21.5 million federal employees and their families.
More than 21 million Social Security numbers were compromised in a breach that affected a database of sensitive information on federal employees held by the Office of Personnel Management, the agency announced Thursday.
That number is in addition to the 4.2 million social security numbers that were compromised in another data breach at OPM that was made public in June.
The second data breach, which officials have privately linked to China, affected 21.5 million federal employees and began in May 2014, according to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta's testimony before Congress. It was not discovered until April 2015.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz tweeted the size of the data breach Thursday, adding that 19.5 million of the affected people had applied for clearances.
A security update applied by OPM and the Department of Homeland Security in January 2015 ended the bulk of the data extraction, according to congressional testimony from Andy Ozment, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at DHS, even though the breach would not be discovered for months.
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The amount of extortion and bribery in the aftermath off this will be absolutely incredible.
Boy, I hope those hackers don’t release the home addresses of all the BATFE, IRS and DHS agents!
Will they blame this one on the No Koreans too?
The government does nothing to companies that repeatedly get hacked and expose consumer data but you can bet they will leave no stone unturned to protect Sally Satchelass at the GSA.
Waiting for the firings and charges to brought-——————still waiting.
Geez Louise, how many federal employees are there?
Considering the fact that everything about you is probably out in the wild somewhere, is there any reason NOT to put a freeze on your credit reports so people can’t open accounts in your name?
This is what Trump has been saying, we have idiots in charge. These are the same people who negotiate trade deals with the best interest of our adversaries in mind. The same people who don’t see a problem with the Secretary of State lying or operating their own private servers. The same exact people who for decades have stood and watched as tens of millions entered our country illegally.
Government has morphed into the largest employer in the U.S. A quarter of your neighbors are probably on it's payroll in one form or another retired etc. Easy to spot, they're generally the ones still doing well.
All hell breaks loose when a company goes through this, all kinds of reporting to government and penalties up the whazoo! But since this is the government, nothing will happen.
If you have ever, or presently do, worked for the Federal Government, or have applied to do so, your identification and background information — all of it — is now in the hands of the Chinese.
So.
Obamacare will make our medical records sit in the computers of the Federal Government. But no worries. They have demonstrated how good they are at protecting information.
Sounds like law enforcement background checks may be common knowledge. Just imagine having secretly rolled on Mafia/Drug-Cartel Kingpins/Gangstas. May be time for a name change.
Those are active employees, add in all former and retired personnel and those who applied for a job and you’re above 20 million real easy.
Oh true. Good point.
Yeah, now add in the tens of millions collecting gold plated government employee retirement benefits for life.
I call BS on this only affecting federal employee records.
What they’re not telling you is the Chicoms have everything the American people have disclosed to the federal gubbermint.
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