Posted on 06/18/2015 1:12:30 PM PDT by detective
As we learn more about the recent cyber-attacks on U.S. federal employee records by Chinese hackers, it is becoming increasingly clear that the problem is much worse than many previously thought.
In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, officials within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) admitted on Tuesday to major lapses in basic cyber-security protocols that left government systems vulnerable to at least two attacks. Those attacks allowed hackers to breach sensitive personal data about nearly all employees of the federal government and millions of persons with security clearances, according to a report by the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
"new evidence suggests it lasted for more than a year. The attacks followed years of substandard security practices that made the attacks possible and prevented their discovery"
It appears security by the Obama Administration was so bad as to be almost useless. Even when warned they refused to take measures needed to protect sensitive data. They simply can not be trusted.
So, boys and girls, your own federal government sold you out, right down to your social security number, to the Communist Chinese!
‘Uh, say! ain’t d’at d’ere sum kinda high crime or sumptin’?’
There, fixed it. What will it take America?
Those poor Bureaucrats!
They trusted the Government .....
Looks so bad it's hard to believe it wasn't on purpose.
And only now, are we learning of it. The KNOWN compromises may well be dwarfed by the actual size of the breach.
This is what happens when someone tries to pass information to the person who is already the smartest person in the room.
If someone bought the Current Occupant for what he was worth, and sold him for what he THOUGHT he was worth, not only could the national debt be retired, but most of the unfunded liabilities we have going forward for the next fifty years.
That was their intent. It was done on purpose.
Even when warned they refused to take measures needed to protect sensitive data.
Because their intent was clear. Why react when warned unless your intent is to weaken and destroy?
“A fish rots from the head.” - Russian Proverb
Our government is so large, bloated, corrupt and uncontrollable that it for all practical purposes no longer functions in any meaningful way, except to exert its unrestrained power over the people. But for actually doing anything positive, no. It exists to exist, and no more than that.
Yep. They don’t know where $3 Billion went in Obamacare spending.
Hopefully, folks will wake up to the reality that, regardless of their own personal beliefs and such, if they work for the government under this regime, they are actively supporting and promoting tyranny, and that karma really truly is a blood sucking whore from which there is no escape. I just cannot bring myself to feel bad for anyone willingly working for this administration. A shame, indeed, but uh...you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
Did they get our military too?
The same thing that happened to France in 1940.
Clearly the solution here is more Free Trade agreements and technology transfers to the ChiComs.
Much more than this Congress is willing to put out.
The OPM Data Breach – What To Do Now and In the Future to Protect Ourselves
Economic threat this creates:
China has around 1.3 Trillion of US bonds. Imagine they ask for payment.
Or they demand submission regarding a political matter, be it a trade treaty or territory.
Next with the personal info for 4 million gov enployees,
they activate a dozen credit cards for each of them.
Credit monitoring is overwhelmed. Banking comes to a hault.
China is holding the US by the throat economically.
Politically and strategically:
Imagine they want information on any group or program in the government. They know who has clearance, all of their personal information, their family’s information, incriminating information in the SF86 form.
Whether it is blackmailing a general to alter the course of a war or threatening to leak embarrassing information on any contractor with a clearance to get more data, now they have the ultimate weapon to pull the strings at almost every level of the government, including defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrup Grumman.
“officials within the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) admitted on Tuesday to major lapses in basic cyber-security protocols”
Incompetence. Other than taking away the freedoms of its citizenry, it’s what government does best (and what central government does better than local government).
We’ll, you know what they say about getting hacked by the Chinese, don’t you?
An hour later, you’re ready to get hacked again.
This has been going on for 6 years not a month or so as the main stream administration prostitutes are preaching.
There's too much fooling around and not enough desire to get at and prevent the problem. Too much finger pointing, etc.
A bureaucratic "I'm sorry" should not cut it anymore. Time to get serious.
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