Posted on 07/09/2015 7:14:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He promised us the most transparent administration in history. And he delivered.
Combined with the 4.2 million people whose Social Security numbers were stolen in a separate breach, we’re now talking about upwards of eight percent of the entire population whose sensitive personal data is in an enemy power’s hands. On that note, let me gently remind you that not a single person has been fired for any of this.
Of the 21.5 million records that were stolen, 19.7 million belonged to individuals who had undergone background investigation, OPM said. The remaining 1.8 million records belonged to other individuals, mostly applicants’ families.
The records that were compromised include detailed, sensitive information about the individuals, including fingerprint data. OPM says 1.1 million compromised files included fingerprints.
Beyond the fingerprints and Social Security numbers, some of the files in the compromised database included “residency and educational history; employment history; information about immediate family and other personal and business acquaintances; health, criminal and financial history; and other details,” OPM said.
Some records included “findings from interviews conducted by background investigators,” and some included the usernames and passwords that applicants used to fill out investigation forms. And although separate systems that store health, financial, and payroll information do not appear to have been compromised, the agency says some mental health and financial information is included in the security clearance files that were affected by the hack.
According to OPM, if you applied to work for the federal government and received a background check at any point since the year 2000, it’s “highly likely” that China has your entire biography, possibly replete with your history of sexual relationships and any history of mental illness to that point. It’s an endless supply of intelligence with which to blackmail people in sensitive government positions....
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Not to worry. China hacked our information, we hacked their stock market.
Copies of 21.5 million birth certificates ... well, not quite ... one of ‘em’s missing.
Oh, no. The NSA has a much broader data file. They are not selective feeders.
yep all 390 million ... they got the ‘illegals’ too >>> LOL
Fortune cookies are about to get very accurate.
its real easy to blame the chinese...and pretty hard to prove anything
given the bunch we have in Washington...just now,...Id say that its US...thats been hacking US
LMAO. Good one. Zing!!
Haha! You raff you ruse!
"Die running dog capitalist!"
Now, now, it’s just the NSA outsourcing.
LoL
They have compromised every single government employee with access to sensitive data. Our entire government body needs to be replaced.
“Fortune cookies are about to get very accurate.”
Now that you mention it, I thought that nine-digit number on my after lunch cookie looked eerily familiar.
I don't recognize this country any more.
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