Posted on Jul 17, 2015
"Senator: SEAL Team 6 At Risk After OPM Hack"
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From: Free Beacon
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Sen. John Boozman (R., Ark.) said personal information on the Navy’s most elite special operations team could be in the hands of America’s adversaries following the cyber attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Boozman told a gathering of reporters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that the attacks, suspected to have originated from China, targeted the “most sensitive information we have.”
“The breach there was really staggering, this magnitude some of the most sensitive information,” Boozman said. “A lot of people when you fill out a form to get a top security clearance, you’re talking about a 120 plus page form.”
The security breaches have left the personal information of roughly 22 million federal employees in the hands of hackers, including Social Security numbers, fingerprints, and passwords.
Individuals applying for security clearances include members of SEAL Team 6.
“The second breach, you’ve got military personnel,” Boozman said. “We might have a situation, you never know, SEAL Team 6, their records are in there because they went through the same security clearance.”
“So it’s just really very, very serious,” he said.
The Arkansas senator criticized the lack of cybersecurity within OPM, saying the agency “didn’t even know how many servers they had.”
“We spend $82 billion a year on IT, $82 billion a year and we have very little to show for it,” Boozman said. “But I think it’s the tip of the iceberg, certainly as a committee we’re going to look—if we need to give them more money, we’ll do whatever it takes to keep these things safe.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/senator-seal-team-6-at-risk-after-opm-hack/se
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Sen. John Boozman (R., Ark.) said personal information on the Navy’s most elite special operations team could be in the hands of America’s adversaries following the cyber attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Boozman told a gathering of reporters in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that the attacks, suspected to have originated from China, targeted the “most sensitive information we have.”
“The breach there was really staggering, this magnitude some of the most sensitive information,” Boozman said. “A lot of people when you fill out a form to get a top security clearance, you’re talking about a 120 plus page form.”
The security breaches have left the personal information of roughly 22 million federal employees in the hands of hackers, including Social Security numbers, fingerprints, and passwords.
Individuals applying for security clearances include members of SEAL Team 6.
“The second breach, you’ve got military personnel,” Boozman said. “We might have a situation, you never know, SEAL Team 6, their records are in there because they went through the same security clearance.”
“So it’s just really very, very serious,” he said.
The Arkansas senator criticized the lack of cybersecurity within OPM, saying the agency “didn’t even know how many servers they had.”
“We spend $82 billion a year on IT, $82 billion a year and we have very little to show for it,” Boozman said. “But I think it’s the tip of the iceberg, certainly as a committee we’re going to look—if we need to give them more money, we’ll do whatever it takes to keep these things safe.”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/senator-seal-team-6-at-risk-after-opm-hack/se
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Everybody's information is at risk, not just past and present members of "SEAL Team 6." You would think Senator Boozman would know that there is no such thing as SEAL Team 6.
Everybody's information is at risk, not just past and present members of "SEAL Team 6." You would think Senator Boozman would know that there is no such thing as SEAL Team 6.
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Even members of Devgru tend to refer to it as Team 6, because that is the parlance, if not the official name...
PO1 Sojourner "Chancy" Phillips
It is a good thing ST6 is not a real duty station. Because people like this Senator saying things like this put those personnel that might be in a special unit at even more risk. I wonder if he has thought about how many of his fellow senators had information in OPM for their clearances.
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Why do these knuckleheads just concentrate on the units they think are "cool"? Every person that has ever submitted for a clearance is at risk.
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Our Seals have been at great risk since the trend lately of their former ranks writing tell all books. I have read most of them. The stories are all amazing, but I've been shocked by how many operational details have been made public. Ditto for movies such as Lone Survivor and American Sniper.
If these media are releasing so much about operations, what's left? Do the SpecOps folks have any secrets left?
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If these media are releasing so much about operations, what's left? Do the SpecOps folks have any secrets left?
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SN Greg Wright
That, and the president glomming onto their coattails within hours after what seems like every operation.
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They showed the OBL op almost live from the helmet cams... That was atrocious, but I'm not sure if it was the first instance of it...
SN Alan West
Members of the military who write books about their experiences USUALLY submit them to the Department of Defense for a security and policy review (pre-publication review). Once the DoD has had a chance to read and redact the manuscript the author, in most cases, makes their edits in preparation for publication. Don Mann, a former member of SEAL Team 6, who wrote the book Inside SEAL Team Six left his redactions in his book to show the reader what the DoD wanted him to edit.
An example of someone who did not submit their book for review was Mark Owen, real name Matt Bissonnette, who wrote the book No Easy Day, which he claims is a first hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Bissonnette was sued by the government, found guilty and ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages for failure to submit his manuscript to the DoD for review. Bissonnette is currently involved in litigation against an attorney he says advised him that he need not submit the manuscript of “No Easy Day” to the Department of Defense for review.
An example of someone who did not submit their book for review was Mark Owen, real name Matt Bissonnette, who wrote the book No Easy Day, which he claims is a first hand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Bissonnette was sued by the government, found guilty and ordered to pay $4.5 million in damages for failure to submit his manuscript to the DoD for review. Bissonnette is currently involved in litigation against an attorney he says advised him that he need not submit the manuscript of “No Easy Day” to the Department of Defense for review.
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I've read that one too...
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