OPM Doesn't Know Who It Will Hire to Protect the 21.5 Million Individuals Affected by Hack

National Journal ^ | 7/9/15 | Kaveh Waddell

[Squantos]

Same here...... crazy.

[Campion]

I wouldn't be too sure that there isn't any fraud going on as a result, based on, let's just say, my recent personal experiences.

However, the main reason the Chinese want the information is to look for people they can blackmail or entice into spying for them.

[IYAS9YAS]

Much more frightening than the hack is the fact we have more than 21 million federal employees.

We don't. This hack includes current, former, and prospective federal employees, as well as contractors. I haven't found any sources that say state/local employees were included. But it's likely state National Guards would be included. The actual current federal employment is about 4.1 million, which includes military and civilian employees under each of the three branches.

In 2014, the breakdown was approximately 2.66 million civilian employees of the Executive Branch, 1.46 million in the Armed Services, and about 63,000 working for the Legislative and Judicial Branches.

Source: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/historical-tables/total-government-employment-since-1962/

[IYAS9YAS]

It will be damn funny if any of the affected are those lazy, unsympathetic Social Security Administration and IRS employees who won’t lift a finger to help victims of identity theft who have their SSN stolen borrowed when the perp uses their SSN for employment and doesn’t pay their taxes or files for benefits using your SSN.

The reality is all federal employees' data was breached. So yes, that would include the IRS.

[IYAS9YAS]

It would be pretty ironic if the list WAS all federal employees.

The list is all federal employees, including military, and even prospective applicants and contractors, for several years back. We only have about 4.1 million federal employees (of which 1.66 million are military), so yes, 18+ million is all of them and more.

[IYAS9YAS]

Sorry, that’s 21+ million total affected, not 18+, and the military is 1.46 million current (as of 2014), not 1.66.

[jsanders2001]

In the current environment if an illegavl “borrows” your SSN the lazy SSA and IRS employees treat you like you are liars and won’t lift a finger to right the wrong. Most are minorities so they aren’t very helpful with whites at all. So if their identity gets stolen I hope it gives them new perapective.

[tbw2]

There’s already a big problem in the CSID plan: I’ve talked to people who work in the NSA, CIA, DOD, and NONE have received the code yet with the free 18 month monitoring.

[unixfox]

What’s not to like about a bunch of government parasites getting their info stolen?

They could care less about you or I’s info being stolen why should I care about theirs?

I could care less about those pukes.

[Axenolith]

Man, it would be a shame if we had to fire and blacklist all of the politician and bureaucrat ones and start with new people... ;-)