Millions hit by personal data hack still have not been told

Reuters ^ | 9/1/15 | Mark Hosenball

[markomalley]

The U.S. government has not yet notified any of the 21.5 million federal employees and contractors whose security clearance data was hacked more than three months ago, officials acknowledged on Tuesday.

The agency whose data was hacked, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), said the Defense Department will begin "later this month" to notify employees and contractors across the government that their personal information was accessed by hackers.

OPM said notifications would continue over several weeks and "will be sent directly to impacted individuals."

OPM also announced that it hired a contractor to help protect the identities and credit ratings of employees whose data was hacked.

In a statement, OPM said it had awarded a contract initially worth more than $133 million to a company called Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC, doing business as ID experts, for identity theft protections for the 21.5 million victims of the security data breach. The contractor will provide credit and identity monitoring services for three years, as well as identity theft insurance, to affected individuals and dependent children aged under 18, the agency said.

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Hillary and her staff have to review the data first. Apparently she’s still missing some emails.

[antidisestablishment]

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[markomalley]

Not true.

DoD 5200.2-R -- C.3.3.2.1 An ENTNAC shall be conducted on each enlisted member of the Armed Forces at the time of initial entry into the service. A DNACI shall be conducted on each commissioned officer, except as permitted by paragraph C3.3.4. of this section, warrant officer, cadet, midshipman, and Reserve Officers Training Candidate, at the time of appointment.

C3.4.2.2.1. shows that a DNACI or ENTNAC is the investigation required for a final SECRET.

Granting access to classified information is, granted, considerably different and is based upon the person's actual job assignment and need to know. Thus actually having access is considerably rarer. But the investigation is done and adjudicated on all first-term enlistees as well as new appointees

[Terry L Smith]

First:
“If you were in the service and had a clearance for 4 years back in the 90s, you’re in that database. If you had a job for a couple of years supporting a defense contractor like Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, etc., and had a clearance, you’re in that database.”

Second, the records hacked go back to 1985!!

Third, for those of us who are retired, from any of the aforementioned things, we are being impacted, as well.

So, for me, that includes the military; D.o.D., Dept. of Commerce; and the V.A.

[trebb]

I was notified some time ago and they provided “complimentary 2-year credit monitoring” to “make it all better”.

[Brown Deer]

Granting access to classified information is, granted, considerably different and is based upon the person's actual job assignment and need to know. Thus actually having access is considerably rarer.

Like I said.

[markomalley]

Like I said.

Where?

[Brown Deer]

Where? Really? You replied to me, so why are you so confused?

[markomalley]

…You replied to me, so why are you so confused?

I'm confused? Hardly.

Post #5: (me) …Almost all military members have at least a SECRET clearance…

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Post #19: (you) Not true.

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Post #23: (me) ((presents excerpts from 5200.02-R))
Granting access to classified information is, granted, considerably different and is based upon the person's actual job assignment and need to know. Thus actually having access is considerably rarer. But the investigation is done and adjudicated on all first-term enlistees as well as new appointees

(NB: If you have, in your past, worked with classified information, you will, of course, remember, that access is granted based upon clearance and need to know)

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Post #26: (you) Like I said.

(NB: I have not seen where you said ANYTHING about access to classified information prior to this point in the thread)

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Seems like you have confused the idea of having a security clearance and having access to classified information. In Post #5, I clearly spoke about having a security clearance (which, at the SECRET level, almost all military members possess). You disagreed with that. In Post #23, I re-asserted that military members have a clearance, but that granting access is considerably different. You agreed.

It appears that you're contradicting yourself.

So please clarify. Is your position:

• Post #26 -- you express agreement with the idea that almost all military members have a clearance but having access to classified information is another matter altogether
  
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• Post #19 -- you express disagreement with the idea that almost all military members have a clearance

The statements contradict each other, so I am asking which position you actually take?

[Brown Deer]

Post #26 -- you express agreement with the idea that almost all military members have a clearance but having access to classified information is another matter altogether

Once again! I stated that it is NOT true that almost all military members have at least a SECRET clearance.

Don't imply that I stated otherwise.

An ENTNAC (Entrance National Agency Check) is a personnel security investigation conducted in the same manner as a NAC, except that a technical fingerprint search of the FBI files is not conducted. The period covered includes the last five years for items 4-Residences, and 6-Employment, and all other items without regard to time.

Just because an investigation was conducted, does not imply that a security clearance was or even could be granted.