Video: China OPM hack breached clearance files back to 1985

Hot Air ^ | June 6, 2015 | Ed Morrissey

[2ndDivisionVet]

Unbelievable. I wonder how many of us here are affected?

[Thumper1960]

Wonder how much $$$$ Bubba and Hildebeast got from their Red China connection.

[pepsionice]

Back in the late 90’s....those of us who required security clearances suddenly woke up and realized the review episodes were now all computerized records that we had to complete and were input into someone’s database system. I sat there for one episode and questioned them over a huge bit of personal data that I was giving them....addresses, bank accounts, etc...which would be sitting out there for someone to hack into. The security guys didn’t have any appreciation of the personal data. Over the next decade....time and time again...same attitude.

Personally, I think a class-action lawsuit is in order....sue the heck out of OPM for long-term stupidity.

[clearcarbon]

"The Office of Personnel Management in the Obama administration apparently needed to listen a little more carefully."

If comrade dictator obama was granted a security clearance, I can see how that could have corrupted the system. Seems like a lot of demRATs in the administration should have lost theirs by now.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Presidents don’t need a security clearance, they are the grantors of such. Catch 22.

[BerryDingle]

That information should be on a classified government computer system impossible to be hacked anywhere in the public. Calling it “Chinese hackers” is a steaming pile of bovine excrement.

[Gen.Blather]

“If comrade dictator obama was granted a security clearance, I can see how that could have corrupted the system.”

I was being interviewed by an FBI contractor (a retired FBI agent) about a security clearance for a former coworker. At the end I asked if I could ask him a few questions. He said yes. I asked him that if I told him my mentor was Frank Marshal Davis and I had been personal friends with Bill Ayers if I would be granted a clearance. He blushed and stammered for a moment, then said, “no.” So there you have it. The president would not have been allowed access to classified information.

I wondered if it was possible we could have any secrets left after he was gone. The answer I keep coming up with is no.

[Nifster]

Since most of my work carried clearance requirements, I know I am

[Nifster]

Oh sure thing

[Nifster]

No system is guaranteed hack proof, some systems are tougher than others

[Rome2000]

Happened to me when they breached OPM the last time.

They send you a letter offering free credit reports for 18 months.

These people are clowns.

[antidisestablishment]

I just want to know who deosn’t have my info yet. I have been notified half a dozen times that a government agency or contractor had a security breech and they will provide a free credit watch service for a year.

It’s freaking insulting! This isn’t about someone’s credit card; it is the golden key for blackmail and extortion.

[22202NOVA]

I’m one of those who’ll be informed that I’m affected by this one. I wonder if I wouldn’t almost be better just putting it out there for the taking. It seems like this happens all the time. I think, seriously, this is at least the fourth or fifth time.

[Terry L Smith]

So all my data history, for all my employment histories,
from all those alphabet soup government offices, have
been stolen.

Well now, this brings out a contractual legal quandry,
(dirt) to throw in our gargantuan government’s face.

(Whaddya mean, Smith?)

“Federal Disclosure Forms”! The same forms argued recently
with Hillary, the SEAL team and Bergdahl, and every one
one here who was a G.I., or some kind of government
employee. The form that says the federal government
won’t acknowledge what you did, while employed, for 25
years, if you keep your trap shut for all that time, too.

Now, in a contract, both parties sign agreememts, for it to
be effective, right?

When I left each office, it was me and an OPM official,
who signed those forms.

Now., with this hacking, which effects all my post-G.I. wonk workings,
does this not “null and void” those agreements, since the
government, in it’s so-called security, now has all that
information disbursed across the globe, with no intention
of secrecy or discretion?

So if I start spouting facts, figures, and events covered by
those agreements, can I, now a victim of identity exposure,
be held accountable, since the other party of the agreement,
has demonstrated inappropriate and lackadaisical information
security?

[gaijin]

Later

[Soul of the South]

Link to a picture and bio of the Director of the Office of Personnel Management:

https://www.opm.gov/about-us/our-people-organization/senior-staff-bios/katherine-archuleta/

[Rome2000]

Explains a lot

The first “Latina” to run OPM and a Colorado school teacher to boot.

Obviously not even remotely qualified, the Chinese probably hacked in using her credentials.

This is a huge story and just like last week when the TSA was caught letting 95% of fake bombs through checkpoints,nothing is going to be done about it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m trying to think of something I wasn’t read in on, but I left in 1983.

[ansel12]

1985 means they could have mine.

[Seizethecarp]

Thanks to Barry, looks like the ChiComs got all my sensitive data...but hey 14-yr-old hackers and FBI/CIA traitors probably gave that stuff to the KGB, direct marketers and the ChiComs long ago, right?