Office of Personnel Management hacked by the Chinese. What are your thoughts?

2015-06-04T18:33:30-04:00

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-breach-federal-governments-personnel-office/2015/06/04/889c0e52-0af7-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html

Huge breach. These hacks are becoming very bold and very large scale. I wonder where the line gets drawn as to what constitutes an act of war. Attribution can be tricky, but we know these bombshell hacks are coming out of China. It seems there isn't much deterrence to prevent these things happening over and over again. Each act doesn't seem to be large enough to merit action (at least overt), but it sometimes feels like death by 1000 cuts. What are everyone's thoughts?

Chinese breach data of 4 million federal workers

Hackers compromised the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, officials said, in the largest exposure of government employee data in recent years.

Response by SCPO David Lockwood made Jun 4 at 2015 7:35 PM

2015-06-04T19:35:46-04:00

I hope the government fixes this and just having a knee jerk reaction.

Response by CPT Ahmed Faried made Jun 4 at 2015 7:43 PM

2015-06-04T19:43:41-04:00

We need to eventually respond in kind. They've even hacked the White House and still we do nothing.

Response by TSgt Joshua Copeland made Jun 4 at 2015 8:12 PM

2015-06-04T20:12:47-04:00

Just read this: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf

Response by LTC Yinon Weiss made Jun 21 at 2015 3:12 PM

2015-06-21T15:12:33-04:00

We've up to now assumed that any information we post on social media can be seen by anybody. We're now moving into a time where any information you give to the government should also be assumed that it will one day be seen by foreign or domestic hackers. Unfortunately under these conditions, I think it would be foolish to believe that anything submitted online will not eventually be exposed if it's valuable enough.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Jun 21 at 2015 3:55 PM

2015-06-21T15:55:35-04:00

They have been conducting these operations for many years. They have the ability to hack the most secure sites and steal all the data in half an hour.