Posted on 09/23/2015 12:03:15 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Hackers Took Fingerprints of 5.6 Million U.S. Workers, Government Says
By DAVID E. SANGERSEPT. 23, 2015
WASHINGTON — Just a day before the arrival of President Xi Jinping of China for a meeting with President Obama that will be focused heavily on limiting cyberespionage, the Office of Personnel Management said Wednesday that the hackers who stole security dossiers from the agency also got the fingerprints of 5.6 million federal employees.
The attack on the agency, which is the main custodian of the government’s most important personnel records, has been attributed to China by American intelligence agencies, but it is unclear exactly what group or organization engineered it. Before Wednesday, the agency had said that it lost only 1.1 million sets of fingerprints among the 22.5 million individuals whose records were compromised. ..snip...
“Federal experts believe that, as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited,” the agency said in a written statement that came out just as Washington was focused on the arrival of Pope Francis on the South Lawn of the White House. But clearly, the uses are growing as biometrics are used more frequently to assure identity in secure government facilities and even on personal iPhones.
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Did hackers feed their fingertips to the wolverines?
Who does our govt’s cyber security? Chinese here on H-1B Visas?
These morons can't build an effective firewall.
Seems like the 5.6 millionth time a story about this has been posted today :)
Stop exaggerating. It’s only the 5.54 millionth time...
$10 says that Obama doesn’t keep this person waiting by having them fly in holding patterns.
inside job,...more alinksy MESS!
So I suppose it really didn’t matter if Hillary used a private email server or the State Department’s server.
This is another act of treason by someone within the OPM. Those fingerprints are classified and not connected at all to the world wide web.
Can't fingerprints be planted at the scene of a crime?
My thought exactly.
Plant a secret service members prints in a hotel room with a dead foreign hooker.
After all the stories?
Slam shut case!
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