Posted on 07/24/2015 8:35:49 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — American officials are concerned that the Chinese government could use the stolen records of millions of federal workers and contractors to piece together the identities of intelligence officers secretly posted in China over the years.
The potential exposure of the intelligence officers could prevent a large cadre of American spies from ever being posted abroad again, current and former intelligence officials said. It would be a significant setback for intelligence agencies already concerned that a recent data breach at the Office of Personnel Management is a major windfall for Chinese espionage efforts.
In the days after the breach of records of millions of federal workers and contractors became public last month, some officials in the Obama administration said that the theft was not as damaging as it might have been because the Chinese hackers did not gain access to the identities of American undercover spies.
The records of the C.I.A. and some other intelligence agencies, they said, were never part of the personnel office’s databases, and were protected during the breach. Officials said intelligence agencies were taking steps to try to mitigate the damage, but it is unclear what they are specifically doing.
But intelligence and congressional officials now say there is great concern that the hackers — who government officials are now reluctant to say publicly were working for the Chinese government — could still use the vast trove of information to identify American spies by a process of elimination. . .
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They got it all. Bank on it.
Never believe anything until it’s been officially denied.
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Gee, ya think?
Thanks, Barack! You a**hole!
“I first heard about this when I read it in the paper, just the same as you.”
Why don’t we ever hack them?
OH NO! Those who sold US out, can now say- “ ooPs! What should we do now? Let’s just take all records and let our new better system- protect and serve, for your safety, by United States Presidential Executive Order.”
Yeah, the executive branch is all scared up. They have the willies.
Obama is afraid to even publicly accuse the Chinese of hacking:
“But the Obama administration has so far refused to publicly accuse Beijing, despite their private conclusions. According to individuals familiar with internal deliberations on the subject, the White House has been reluctant to offend the Chinese in the midst of sensitive international negotiations. And there are concerns that exposing China could compromise U.S. intelligence-gathering techniques.”
It’s not just Obama.
My guess - they have whatever NSA has.
Yeah.
They will do a cross reference with the hack of adulterers site “Ashley Madison” and have blackmail on tens of thousands of Gov’t employees.
All part of Obama’s dreams of leveling the playing field.
I have asked that same question about 43,000 times, and I still wonder.
Awesome COMSEC ........not.
Hope yer well troop !
——Why don’t we ever hack them?——
I believe the China hack was retribution, payback for NSA and who can guess what other hacking by DOD.
China in effect said stop that crap
We can play the game as well as you.
What makes you think we don’t?
Where's the outrage now?
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