Security Clearances may now just be G&S
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Larry Pratt (President of Gun Owners of America) spoke at on of my gun clubs last night. He had some encouraging news about Constitutional carry and National reciprocity. I'm surprised he didn't mention this breech.
ericoak
don't drop Aboma on me
In your dreams.
Lou45
R.I.P.
According to ther news this afternoon, (IIRC) it wasn't discovered until sometime today, or at least that's when Uncle Sam let it become public knowledge.
Potentially all agencies IIRC.
Mack C-85
R.I.P.
The records were hacked from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), aka the Feds HR department. So, if you ever applied to, work for, or used to work for Uncle Sam you are possibly exposed. Clearance data was also breached, so if you ever filled out a SF-86 you know how VERY exposed you might be.
janklow
Active Member
- Feb 6, 2013
- 880
OPM covers a few different things, so i'm wondering if this actually has to do with clearances or if it's a different aspect of OPM that got affected and the clearance thing is coming from the agency description. sucks either way.
guess affected people will find out shortly when they start dropping letters to compromised people (seen THAT happen before)
guess affected people will find out shortly when they start dropping letters to compromised people (seen THAT happen before)
ShallNotInfringe
Lil Firecracker
- Feb 17, 2013
- 8,554
Well this sucks. Between the government health agency (Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Bantam earlier this year) being hacked and this, there's not much left on the privacy front for civil servants.
DaemonAssassin
Why should we Free BSD?
I know at least one person with a clearance that used that as G&S and got a MD CCW based off of that...
Here's a list of the top 10 fed hacks from last year: http://m.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/12/year-breach-10-federal-agency-data-breaches-2014/102066/
See item #4 mentions the OPM attack was first reported in July 2014. According to numerous articles in the news, although the story first broke in July (last year), the events happened in March 2014.
Unfortunately, it gives Hillary a great talking point.
It's maddening how much cyber security training one needs to do each year in the federal gov't - for really basic do not do kind of stuff - and the guys that have the keys to the castle - meaning the head admins (which should include real cyber security experts) in the Federal Government managing records with reams of personnel info - screw the pooch on this one.
Have to give credit for Homeland Security actually detecting the intrusion and warning other gov't agencies.
As always, these screw ups, beyond exposing information that can be used identity theft or more, will mean that the rank-and-file will have to do even more useless cyber security training. Ugh.
And at some point, if this hostile act can definitely be pointed back to a specific nation state, when and how do we start retaliating to show our displeasure. Their nose needs to be bloodied. President Reagan would not stand for this kind of garbage - but even Obama, at some point, has to come to the realization that enough is enough.
It's maddening how much cyber security training one needs to do each year in the federal gov't - for really basic do not do kind of stuff - and the guys that have the keys to the castle - meaning the head admins (which should include real cyber security experts) in the Federal Government managing records with reams of personnel info - screw the pooch on this one.
Have to give credit for Homeland Security actually detecting the intrusion and warning other gov't agencies.
As always, these screw ups, beyond exposing information that can be used identity theft or more, will mean that the rank-and-file will have to do even more useless cyber security training. Ugh.
And at some point, if this hostile act can definitely be pointed back to a specific nation state, when and how do we start retaliating to show our displeasure. Their nose needs to be bloodied. President Reagan would not stand for this kind of garbage - but even Obama, at some point, has to come to the realization that enough is enough.
What OPM has to say...
http://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2015/06/opm-to-notify-employees-of-cybersecurity-incident/
http://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2015/06/opm-to-notify-employees-of-cybersecurity-incident/
jimbobborg
Oddball caliber fan
PII is just that, PII. It's treated differently than FOUO or SBU. This information should be on the high side, but it looks like it isn't.
Remember, OPM is a civilian agency, not DoD. Do you remember a few years back when DOI had their interwebz access pulled by a judge because they didn't lock down their web/database servers? DOI had NO FIREWALLS IN PLACE. The company I worked for at the time supported their print shop. We could directly connect to their desktops from our office in Fairfax to help support the software we sold them.
Maverick0313
Retired and loving it
E mail I got yesterday (right as the story broke) stated those affected will receive an e mail, a snail mail,18 months credit monitoring, and stolen id insurance plan between June 8-19th.
That used to be a point of discussion at dinners whenever OCONUS TDY.... "OK, who got their room searched today while we were working?". Happens very regularly (and I'm guessing that if I could tell that it happened 10% of the time, then it probably really happened 50% of the time).
Skins_Brew
loves the smell of cosmo
I would be willing to bet my name and info was in there. I am not totally worried about it.
That used to be a point of discussion at dinners whenever OCONUS TDY.... "OK, who got their room searched today while we were working?". Happens very regularly (and I'm guessing that if I could tell that it happened 10% of the time, then it probably really happened 50% of the time).
I've been to places that have been pretty overt. Hey, if they want to watch me shred one off at night in my room, let em. The short, black haired guys with tiny peckers can be jealous of my rod all they want.
Counter surveiling host country surveilers while they surveil your surveilers is always a hoot too. :thumbup:
- Dec 27, 2012
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4 million people hacked?
Out of how many .gov secret agent types?
I'm just curious if its a little slice or a big chunk.
Out of how many .gov secret agent types?
I'm just curious if its a little slice or a big chunk.
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