Posted on 06/10/2015 10:21:01 AM PDT by detective
Only a week after Russian "crime syndicates" hacked the IRS database and stole information on the tax returns of more than 100,000 people, China was blamed for "one of the largest thefts of government data ever seen," the Wall Street Journal reports. The data breach allowed Chinese hackers to steal the personal records of about four million people — all either government employees, contractors, or their families.
The cyber-attack by Russian hackers is not the first of its kind. The New American reported last year that Russian hackers broke into networks at the White House, and in a separate cyber-attack Russian hackers installed a "Trojan Horse" into computer systems vital to national security. Russians were likely involved when North Korea was made the scapegoat in the cyber-attack that nearly destroyed Sony Pictures.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
"this is part of an ongoing strategy by which Beijing is gaining unprecedented digital power over the American people by "building massive databases of Americans' personal information by hacking government agencies and U.S. health-care companies, using a high-tech tactic to achieve an age-old goal of espionage: recruiting spies or gaining more information on an adversary." Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer of the cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect, based in Northern Virginia, said, "They're definitely going after quite a bit of personnel information. We suspect they're using it to understand more about who to target."
It's a little like the trick-or-treating strategy employed by street bullies: Rather than do the hard work of going door-to-door collecting the loot, let someone else do it for you and then simply steal it from them. With U.S. government three-letter agencies conducting intrusive surveillance on the American people, the shortest path to that data is to hack those databases and steal it. And it appears this is exactly what China is doing."
It appears the Obama administration is not just illegally spying on American citizens. They are making the personal and financial information of American citizens available to the Russians and the Chinese governments for them to use however they please.
China doing it = not OK, but America doing it to Americans = OK. Got it!
Yep - lunacy, isn’t it?
China could just bribe someone in DC to give them their database.
Hey China, can you tell us who our president really is then?
They can probably tell us who the next one will be....
Seems like a waste. Just get the info from Apple.
Next up, the call to throw even more cash at the problem. Maybe they should make the IT security guys do their job and keep the hackers out, or lose their jobs. Or is that too easy a solution? Snark...
Alternate theory: The new owners want to know as much about the tenants as possible.
Now we are going to get hit with all kinds of direct adverts promoting commemorative plate collections
“Maybe they should make the IT security guys do their job and keep the hackers out, or lose their jobs. Or is that too easy a solution? Snark..”
IT guys with real skills are very hard to find and expensive (at least up front)
Maybe it was China. But who knows. We don’t seem to even be able to tell about these things. Then again it could be cover so the left can use the information themselves and blame China. Until a formal charge is made, we do not know for sure.
Screw it, let's pull the plug, problem solved.
Be sure to buy a Lenovo computer and a Motorola/Lenovo phone to help the Chinese effort.
Tell me 'bout it! Most companies are more inclined to bring in lower cost offshore posers.
When the time comes to take over, simply round up the leaders, doers, and potential troublemakers, then go door to door and shoot them before they can cause trouble or organize a resistance.
This is why I maintain as low a profile as possible.
No Facebook.
No Instagram.
No Twitter.
No social media, period.
If you wanted to build a profile of me, spending time looking through the 100s of posts made here on FR would be a good place to start. But that’s a lot of wading and reading. And for what?
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