More good news in the OPM data breach

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...d-in-breaches/

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One of the scariest parts of the massive cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management just got worse: The agency now says 5.6 million people's fingerprints were stolen as part of the hacks.
That's more than five times the 1.1 million figure the agency had cited in earlier updates after the cyberattacks were disclosed over the summer. However, the agency said the total number of those believed to be caught up in the breaches remains the same.

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How great. Im part of the breach. Never been .mil .gov held a clearance or even a sub contractor.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

How great. Im part of the breach. Never been .mil .gov held a clearance or even a sub contractor.

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How did you know you were part of it? Did you get a notification or something. I am .mil etc and other than the general emails I have gotten nothing specific. Wondering if I missed something.

As a current .gov employee it is disturbing I read about this fingerprint info first from the Wash Post instead of from OPM or my agency.

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Originally Posted by vossman

How did you know you were part of it? Did you get a notification or something. I am .mil etc and other than the general emails I have gotten nothing specific. Wondering if I missed something.

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Related to several people with clearances.

More proof of .gov incompetence. We would be better off with Eric Snowden as president. Only real way to secure data is with biometric controls as an added security measure. Are finger print readers such a big hassle to implement? Retinal scanners? They have this technology at the Cape Canaveral Air Force station as a routine measure. And this is what they published in the local paper, so don't flame me!

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/wh...-scanning-1177

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

Related to several people with clearances.

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Yup, that will get you on their SF 86.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

How great. Im part of the breach. Never been .mil .gov held a clearance or even a sub contractor.

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Welcome to the ride. [shithitsfan]

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Originally Posted by rbeau30

Yup, that will get you on their SF 86.

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One got updated 2 weeks before the hack...

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

One got updated 2 weeks before the hack...

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I was in the process of buying a house when my update was going through. 2 months from moving in, they had already visited my neighbors asking about me. So you really don't even need to be related or even mentioned on the document. Just by being a neighbor of a cleared person you potentially are in a database somewhere.

So the security clearance I was given isn't so 'secure.' I am really sick of reading about this and OPM. OPM has always been a PITA.

The Obama administration couldn't have done a better job of undermining US national security if they had tried deliberately. Just saying ...

Still supprised I haven't received a letter yet.

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Originally Posted by Mazin

Still supprised I haven't received a letter yet.

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I'm not. I know how efficient the gubment is.

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Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

The Obama administration couldn't have done a better job of undermining US national security if they had tried deliberately. Just saying ...

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But... What if they ARE trying to deliberately?

[tinhat]

Just got my letter and PIN yesterday stating my info was included in the hack.
Say they will cover me and any dependents under the age of 18 for 3 years.

Govt efficiency.

Both the wife and I got our letters saying our information was hacked. Mine from the clearance and hers for being mentioned in my clearance packet. Lovely.

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Originally Posted by davsel

Just got my letter and PIN yesterday stating my info was included in the hack.
Say they will cover me and any dependents under the age of 18 for 3 years.

Govt efficiency.

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Got mine as well. So glad every tax payer gets to provide that coverage for me. So easy for government bureaucrats to spend our money to fix their mistakes.

Does anyone believe OPM has fixed the system so that this could never happen again? All this government provided security seems to make us less secure every day.

Be safe.

It will be interesting to see if OPM can even find me for the clearance I had.

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Originally Posted by cstone

Got mine as well. So glad every tax payer gets to provide that coverage for me. So easy for government bureaucrats to spend our money to fix their mistakes.

Does anyone believe OPM has fixed the system so that this could never happen again? All this government provided security seems to make us less secure every day.

Be safe.

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Sounds suspiciously like the EPA's mode of operations in Colorado recently...



Mrs. HB and I both got them as well. Really instills trust in your government, right?

A little under ten years ago when I received my first tax payer funded credit monitoring for some bungled effort by a government agency at protecting my personally identifiable information. I recall joking about how I will probably be covered for the rest of my career based on my knowledge of how much data various agencies are maintaining and how affective these agencies are at safeguarding that data. So far, they have not let me down. I believe I am about seven years or so into my tax payer funded credit monitoring.

The EPA - protecting the environment by destroying one river at a time. Paid for by the work of Americans throughout the nation.

If Eve hadn't gotten us kicked out of the Garden of Eden, the EPA would have.

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If Eve hadn't gotten us kicked out of the Garden of Eden, the EPA would have.

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The EPA protects the environment like the Department of Education teaches people. I would mention the Secret Service, but that would ruin the secret part. Has anyone ever seen what comes from all of the labor done by the employees in the Department of Labor?

Just assume that if it comes from legislation, that the words used do not mean anything even close to what most people understand to be the definition of those words. Example - common sense gun laws.

Got my notification as well. Curious if my wife will get one also, since she was in my background packet.


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Mine came a month ago or so. Just waiting on the wife to get hers. [panic] The sad thing is this is catching many from long ago and far away. Mine expired in 2001. You would think some things needed to be archived and purged.[Rant1]

Just got my letter as well.