OPM Hacked

[airborneranger]

Awesome.....


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[SouthPaw]

Put me on the list...

[Bailey Guns]

Well, shit.... That's probably both my wife and myself in that one.

Yeah...us, too. Course, we haven't had them since 1990. Hopefully that's long enough ago our records have been purged.

[Gman]

Yeah...us, too. Course, we haven't had them since 1990. Hopefully that's long enough ago our records have been purged.

My records go back even further than that. Hopefully my records were still on paper in a box somewhere. I can't imagine that the government would actually clean anything up. Just keep adding to the pile.

[theGinsue]

Well damn.

I have a whole lot more I'd like to say but it probably isn't in my best interest to do so.

[mcantar18c]

Bring it on, fuckers...

[Dave]

Apparently the records stolen go back to 1985.

http://news.yahoo.com/data-hacked-u-...033556501.html

[BREATHER]

You want to know what really gripes me. I know it ain't their duty, but... Gates Zuckerman, Jobs team, ought to be able to come up with a foolproof anti- hacking method of preventing this. They're smart enough and we the citizens made them all wealthy beyond belief.....Let them give back and protect what they created....

[HoneyBadger]

Well, crap. I thought you were talking about the silver company, so I ignored this thread. Now I'm glad I read it.

I have to wonder though... I've had 5 different addresses since my last clearance investigation... Maybe that makes the whole identity theft and finding me thing a little harder. Either way, between all the major retailers that have reported millions of card breeches in the last few years, and now this, cash is looking like a better payment medium every day.

[Aloha_Shooter]

HoneyBadger, if this was indeed perpetrated by the Chicom government as some news reports indicate, this has nothing to do with identity theft to take out credit cards in your name. They're seeking information on who has clearances, who is in sensitive positions, and what they might be able to use as leverage.

BREATHER, first, it's really Really REALLY hard to create something "foolproof". There are a lot more fools than programmers out there, much less competent security architects.

Second, you're giving Zuckerman waaaaaaaaay too much credit. He glommed onto a stupid product but marketed it brilliantly (much like Bill Gates bought and sold brilliant products then leveraged them to make Microsoft #1 but Gates was an honest-to-God geek in many respects).

Third, you can take care of the vast bulk of personal identity concerns by thinking about what you're doing: stop posting personal details on Facebook and Twitter, quit "friending" so many people (does anybody really have 6000 personal friends that they are willing to share intimate information with in person? if not, why do it online?), etc.

Lastly, password discipline helps a lot. Obscure foreign words are an easy to way to make it harder on the dictionary attacks.

I'm undecided as to which contemporary "innovation" is dumber, Twitter or Facebook, but identity theft because of what people post on social media is a self-inflicted problem. Of course, none of this helps in the case of OPM just not doing their job in protecting sensitive information. DoD gives out letters of reprimand to people sending unencrypted email with personally identifying information these days but I doubt anyone at OPM will suffer for their maladministration; if anything, some dolt will probably get a promotion out of it for "fixing" a problem s/he created.