PeoplesElbow
Well-Known Member
Well looks like enough people beat on them that the way they were notifying people was stupid and people are being automatically enrolled into the credit monitoring service.
35 I'm gobsmacked that we just let this data get stolen for free right from under our very noses.
The Clinton Foundation could have sold it.
Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at June 11, 2015 06:54 PM (8ZskC)
Meanwhile......
It takes 3 months, mountains of paperwork, several inspections, multiple approvals, and a wishing well just to get a damn laptop with the latest Windows installed to do my job!
And these idiots can't even stop a pimple-faced teenager from stealing stuff!
inspections?
inspections?
Anal probe. They said it was legit, and necessary.
Cruzin' for a date?
It's getting better...and President Stompy Foot is tearing up...blubbering like a baby..
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/357301.php
What about family members and their ssn's? Saw a security expert on FOX, citing his sources in the govt, yesterday afternoon saying this particular breech has been going on for a year before the govt finally admitted it, and that would enable the hackers to easily permeate all kinds of other layers. He also put out that some 30-40 agencies use OPM record keepers as their primary asset.
Trying to find the report. Found this on yahoo:
https://www.yahoo.com/digest/20150611/union-hackers-personnel-data-federal-employee-10594687
That is scary.
I'm thinking about every SF86 I've filled out since 1976 (whatever forms came before the sf86) and all of the PII found there. Addresses, maiden names, ssn's, siblings, birthdates - heck, there's enough info to answer every secret question needed on a password challenge.
Along those lines, a few years back, I started getting uneasy about everyone asking "mother's maiden name" and I assigned a word unassociated with her maiden name. Mother's maiden name: Cheese Best friend: Cheese Favorite color: Cheese. You get the idea.