Posted on Jun 12, 2015
China’s Spies Hit the Blackmail Jackpot With Data on 4 Million Federal Workers
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Did You Know Chinese Spies Can Blackmail 4 Million Americans?
The reveberations of the recent hack at OPM will be felt for atleast the next 30 years. They essentially hacked the sf86 that every federal employee has filled out at one point or another. This document is treasure trove of information that goes 10 sometimes 15 years into a person's history. Cybersecurity has always been our achilles heel but it just didn't seem to get the needed attention it deserved. My hope is that because this hit some movers and shakers as well perhaps more investments will be made to harden our cyber infrastructures.
The reveberations of the recent hack at OPM will be felt for atleast the next 30 years. They essentially hacked the sf86 that every federal employee has filled out at one point or another. This document is treasure trove of information that goes 10 sometimes 15 years into a person's history. Cybersecurity has always been our achilles heel but it just didn't seem to get the needed attention it deserved. My hope is that because this hit some movers and shakers as well perhaps more investments will be made to harden our cyber infrastructures.
China’s Spies Hit the Blackmail Jackpot With Data on 4 Million Federal Workers
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China
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Cybersecurity
Posted 9 y ago
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This is not good -
Personal information on 2.1 million current employees. While they say this can be fixed the only for sure method is to wipe the system clean and rebuild as there is more than likely a trojan or two buried in the network. Additionally there is the possibility of a mole in OPM or one of it vendors.
Personal information on 2.1 million current employees. While they say this can be fixed the only for sure method is to wipe the system clean and rebuild as there is more than likely a trojan or two buried in the network. Additionally there is the possibility of a mole in OPM or one of it vendors.
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SPC David S.
Seems it was a contractor - US-CERT team discovered that the earliest incursion they could identify had been made with an OPM credential issued to a contractor from KeyPoint Government Solutions. KeyPoint had announced a breach of its own network in December 2014. For KeyPoint credential data should have been moved behind an air gap. However I think OPM was breached in earlier in 2014.
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I am not sure I would agree with the number of 4 million. It might be higher with some of the info from the other OPM hacks.
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Everyone on RallyPoint needs needs to read this. Thanks for posting it @ahmed faried (rp mobile tagging failing).
It's looking more and more like the U.S. Gov't is just failing in this new domain.
It's looking more and more like the U.S. Gov't is just failing in this new domain.
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CPT Ahmed Faried
its even more appallikng when you realize that our vulnerabilities have been known for ages.
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