Why I am not surprised? Because all of the I.T. support for all the Federal agencies are outsourced. No systems are updated, patched or otherwise hardened against attack because of the time and paperwork involved.
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And, as usual, it’s much worse that originally reported:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/12/officials-hack-exposed-up-to-14-million-federal-records/?intcmp=latestnews
And no one will be fired…
posted 6/12 435pm Texas[Press 1 for English, 2 for Chinese]Time
From the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33120405
posted 6/12 850pm Texas[No problem here, move along…]Time
I’ll keep adding updates as we find them:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/13/cyber-war-pearl-harbor-obama-administrations-excuses-and-lies-about-opm-hack-melt-away/
And this from Wired:
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/opm-breach-security-privacy-debacle/
posted 6/13 527pm Texas[SF-86]Time
Here’s a USA Today story/opinion piece just published.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/06/14/federal-records-hack-china-pearl-harbor-column/71210018/
Meanwhile the Prolefeed continues…
posted 6/14 455pm Texas[what private email server?]Time
Here’s the story that keeps on giving.
The Greatest Security Breach in American History.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/15/collective-panic-spreads-among-federal-employees-over-opm-hack/
and this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/15/china-s-hack-just-wrecked-american-espionage.html
posted 6/16 901am Texas[Born in a TeePee]Time
OPM Chief says, “It’s not my fault”…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2566373
posted 6/16 240pm Texas[Finger Pointing]Time
And so it goes:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/16/opm-breach-gets-even-bigger-congressional-staff-hacked-too/
posted 6/16 1035pm Texas[Drip,Drip,Drip] Time
The continuing story of the total breakdown of security in the Federal Government:
OPM violates own rules by putting a clickable link in an email.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/06/18/reacting-to-chinese-hack-the-government-may-not-have-followed-its-own-cybersecurity-rules/
posted 6/18 1031pm Texas[Click Me!]Time
More Technical Details about this Massive Government Hack by the Chinese:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/why-the-biggest-government-hack-ever-got-past-opm-dhs-and-nsa/
posted 6/19 826am Texas[Outsourced]Time
Can it get worse? Of course it can~!
Now we admit we don’t know, maybe a year?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/19/opm-on-second-thought-we-dont-know-when-massive-hack-began/
posted 6/20 646pm Texas[My Password is Password]Time
And now the New York Times jumps into the fray:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/us/attack-gave-chinese-hackers-privileged-access-to-us-systems.html?_r=0
You may ask, why am I following this one story?…It happens to be the Greatest Cyberwar Attack by the Communist Chinese in American History. And that is not an exaggeration.
posted 6/21 1147 Texas[Admin Access]Time
Congress was warned in 1998. What did they do? Nothing.
From the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/
posted 6/22 211pm Texas[Social Engineering]Time
Surprise~! Hack probably 4 times larger than admitted by the Government~!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/opm-hack-18-milliion/index.html
This is the story that just keeps on giving…stay tuned.
posted 6/22 1150pm Texas[R00T Access]Time
From the Fox Website:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/23/sources-number-affected-by-govt-cyber-breach-soars-to-at-least-18m/?intcmp=latestnews
OPM head says, ‘No one personally responsible’. Hey lady, you’re in charge, it’s you~!
posted 6/23 154pm Texas[Outsourced Contractor]Time
Stolen Government usernames/passwords on ‘The DarkNet’
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOVERNMENT_HACKED_STOLEN_PASSWORDS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-24-12-52-33
posted 6/24 1207pm Texas[password123]Time
Now it’s described as ‘Worse than Snowden’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/26/government-secrets-opm-hackers-reportedly-accessed-most-sensitive-secrets/?intcmp=latestnews
posted 6/26 843am Texas[More Prolefeed~!]Time
Snowden leaks included information that US was planting spyware in software technology used overseas. So for banks and financial firms to do business in China, China is requiring that all software be Chinese. The US protests that and calls it protectionism. By that logic, you are supposed to let foreign countries get all your info. So OPM doing nothing to prevent ID theft is consistent with ‘not being protectionist’. Louses!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/24/us-usa-china-idUSKBN0P42H620150624
GOP Lawmakers call for firings~! And nothing will happen…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/27/gop-lawmakers-ask-obama-to-fire-opm-chief-after-massive-data-breach/?intcmp=latestnews
posted 6/27 1037pm Texas[No Big Deal, Right?]Time
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it does(again)…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/08/are-we-at-the-beginning-of-a-new-cyber-war-sparked-by-greece/
posted 7/8 1116pm Texas[Skynet]Time
Please read #2 very carefully…Notifications for this breach has NOT yet begun.
https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/
Look at the HUGE number of effected people.
Background investigations from 2000 onward compromised.
Why isn’t this still isn’t headline news?…If you have to ask, you already know why…
posted 7/9 250pm Texas[Having Fun Yet?]Time
And now the Fox News Website Headline:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/09/hackers-stole-social-security-numbers-from-215-million-govt-admits/
Hey, it could have been worse, right?
posted 7/9 340pm Texas[Off The Grid]Time
Resign? Why would she want to do that? That would mean taking responsibility for your actions or lack of, in this case. See: Kathleen Sebelius
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/10/opm-chief-shrugs-off-calls-for-her-resignation/
posted 7/10 801am Texas[Credit Check]Time
Breaking News: Knucklehead OPM Chief Resigns. But here’s the ‘real’ problem: It’s all the people working under her that are responsible, just like the Veterans Administration.
posted 7/10 1143 Texas[Hackers Win]Time
I keep updating this original forum post, just to keep a running story line as time passes:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/07/13/why-opm-hack-is-ongoing-cyber-headache/?intcmp=latestnews
So here’s the thing, and mentioned in the story. The ‘Government’ is giving, supposedly, giving all the effected people Eighteen(18) months of some kind of ‘Life-Lock’ coverage. At 18 months, what will happen?…most will not renew the protection and then it all comes crashing down. Expect ‘the major fun’ to start happening late next year, if not sooner.
posted 7/13 1030pm Texas[Change Your Passwords]Time
Finally a story about the real problem..the Stolen Fingerprints~!
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/opm-hack-fingerprints-china-20150714
No problem, just reissue them, right?
posted 7/14 651pm Texas[LifeLock]Time
This is the story that keeps on giving…yeah, even more bad news…
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/senator-seal-team-6-at-risk-after-opm-hack/
You can bet that the Chi-Coms have an entire datacenter with 1000’s of virtual systems collating all the stolen databases, right now, as I type this update.
posted 7/16 305pm Texas[What Cyberwar?]Time
And another update:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/23/entire-us-national-security-system-possibly-compromised-by-year-long-cyber/
And it will get worse…
posted 7/23 1149am Texas[Cold War]Time
Totally predictable outcome of The Attack. Meanwhile Fox and all the rest are reporting about ‘Hulk Hogan’…pathetic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/25/world/asia/us-fears-data-stolen-by-chinese-hacker-could-identify-spies.html?_r=0
posted 7/25 714am Texas[I Spy]Time
Another related story worthy of an update:
The United Airlines Hack by the Communist Chinese.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-29/china-tied-hackers-that-hit-u-s-said-to-breach-united-airlines
As the story states, now they can cross-reference travel of people they stole in the OMB hack.
posted 7/29 822am Texas[Cruz Country]Time
This just in…Vending Machines Hacked in the Pentagon Food Court~!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/08/pentagon-food-court-computers-hacked-exposing-employees-bank-information/?intcmp=hplnws
posted 9/9 915am Texas[Press B9]Texas
And another related story about Communist Chinese spying, this time NASA:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227518/Renowned-U-S-scientist-worked-NASA-Mars-missions-resigns-disappears-FBI-investigates-suspicions-shared-defence-secrets-China.html
posted 9/9 935am Texas[Sum Ting Wong]Time
Here’s the newest, but not the last, story about the Communist Chinese hack:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/15/chinas-facebook-us-government-employees/?intcmp=hpbt1
A Generational Problem.
posted 9/15 1011pm Texas[Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?]Time
More on this story. Not 1.1 million but 5.6 million fingerprint scans stolen.
Still the greatest hack in American History but let’s have a ‘State Dinner’ and major as**kis*ing for the head Dictator of Communist China.
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/23/office-of-personnel-mgmt-56m-estimated-to-have-fingerprints-stolen-in-breach.html
and remember this little video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1xlcMWoGJI
posted 9/23 1009am Texas[Soup or Eggroll?]Time
Here’s this story from the Fox News Website:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/23/feds-acknowledge-more-than-5m-fingerprints-stolen-in-breach-far-more-than/?intcmp=hpbt2
For those that will be around in say, 20 or 30 years, expect this story to still be alive.
posted 9/23 214pm Texas[SkyNet]Time
TAM dennisl59 has been busy…thanks for all the links to these great stories. On second thought, were these all from dennis or did they originate in Beijing?
If you read the language of these statements by both President Eleven and President Zero,
it’s all bureaucratic gobbledygook and hogwash. The Chi-Comms have no intention to stop the active CyberWar against the U.S.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/25/obama-us-will-candidly-discuss-differences-with-china/?intcmp=hplnws
posted 9/26 945am Texas[Teardown the Chinese Firewall]Time
Thanks to Tammy, we just read this story. More fallout from the OPM hack:
http://www.stripes.com/news/cia-pulled-officers-from-beijing-after-opm-hacking-of-personnel-records-1.370967
posted 9/30 1017am Texas[Peking]Time
But we signed an ‘agreement’ with President Eleven(XI)~!!!
Chi-Com Hacks continue…
http://www.cnet.com/news/china-hack-attacks-continue-despite-commercial-spying-pact-with-us-security-firm-says/?ftag=CAD2e9d5b9&bhid=19946276061077742577438712933262
posted 10/19 135pm Texas[Wonton Soup or Eggroll?]Time
It’s been a while but this story just popped up. China arrests ‘The Hackers’…that’s a joke there’s not several, but thousands in the Cyberwar Chinese Army…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/04/china-claims-arrest-hackers-compromised-20-million-u-s-federal-employees/
posted 12/6 824am Texas[One and Zeros]Time
Surprise~! Guess what I just got in the mail? A notification letter from the OMB that “You are receiving this notification because we have determined that your Social Security Number and other personal information was included in the intrusion”…
They are offering credit monitoring for 3 years. It makes one wonder whether the ‘monitoring services’ are even worth the time and trouble. Anyone else get one of these letters?
https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/#Services
posted 12/7 1147am Texas[FICO Score]Time
Well this thread hasn’t been updated in quite a while, but I thought this story was worth posting…
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cyber-threat-government-debates-cyber-counterattacks-chinese-attacks-continue-unabated/
posted 5/16 1117pm Texas[Changed you passwords lately?]Time
This thread has been ongoing for a year, but the problem is still here. This story gives a summary of what’s going on, right now.
http://atimes.com/2016/06/chinese-espionage-and-intelligence-activities-at-all-time-high-experts-say/
posted 6/14 722pm Texas[Chop Suey]Time
Here’s a related update about the newest weapon of war being deployed against America:
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3085483/high-performance-computing/china-builds-world-s-fastest-supercomputer-without-u-s-chips.html
posted 6/20 325pm Texas[1’s and 0’s]Time
It’s been awhile since the last update to this thread. Though not a headline making story, it’s one that deserves some notice. To be clear, Communist China is stealing our military secrets…
http://www.atimes.com/article/chinas-spies-gain-valuable-us-defense-technology-report/
posted 12/9 802am Texas[Change Your Password]Time
Here’s a fictional story and then a follow up analysis of the Cyberwar Communist China is engaged in at this very moment:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-information-warfare-panda-eats-shoots-leaves/
posted 1/3 857am Texas[Down Goes The Grid]Time
Well I thought an update to this thread is due. Remember the OPM attack?
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-spy-network-united-states-includes-25000-intelligence-officers/
posted 7/11 922pm Texas[Fried Rice]Time
Is everything a coincidence?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/equifax-says-cyber-intrusion-affected-143-million-customers
I love this quote: “This is clearly a disappointing event for our company…” Ya Think?
posted 9/8 753am Texas[Cash]Time
It’s been quiet on this thread for quite awhile BUT here’s the latest published attack from the Communist Chinese. They embed hardware in system boards made while in the subcontractor supply chain…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evidence-of-hacked-supermicro-hardware-found-in-u-s-telecom
posted 10/9 1115am Texas[Bits and Bytes]Time
Followup story with some duplicate information BUT…
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/09/report-telecom-company-uncovers-further-evidence-chinese-hardware-hack/
posted 10/10 852am Texas[Press Reset] Time