Cyber-Breach at the Office of Personnel Management Edit

[nadinbrzezinski]

June 4, 2015 (WASHINGTON) The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been recently made aware of a cyber security breach. The Federal Bureau (FBI) of investigating the breach, together with Homeland Security.

OPM is to send about 4 million notifications to current and former federal employees.

According to OPM they became aware of the incident in April. According to OMP “Since the incident was identified, OPM has partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the impact to Federal personnel. And OPM immediately implemented additional security measures to protect the sensitive information it manages.”

Moreover, “Beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19, OPM will be sending notifications to approximately 4 million individuals whose Personally Identifiable Information was potentially compromised in this incident. The email will come from [e-mail] and it will contain information regarding credit monitoring and identity theft protection services being provided to those Federal employees impacted by the data breach. In the event OPM does not have an email address for the individual on file, a standard letter will be sent via the U.S. Postal Service.”

http://reportingsandiego.com/2015/06/04/cyber-breach-at-the-office-of-personnel-management/

[House of Roberts]

1. When are the Republicans going to fund the upgrade from Windows 95?

I'm only half joking, or maybe not at all.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I know you are half joking, I was thinking Win 98

[House of Roberts]

3. The DoD has the 98

Republicans value the military.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. But this is not DoD

It is personnel...

I went for the what they are going to do, far more important for folks than Chinese base

[glinda]

5. inside job imho

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Really do not know and I do not want to speculate

[glinda]

7. I don't know either.

I just notice that every time the "guilty" is always said to be outside the US. Always another Country. It occurred to me that there is little discussion about "inside". In fact...none.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Well there are attacks on the US all the time

let me see if I can find the graphic

This one is one in a variation of them

We attack them, they attack us

http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&list=0&time=16590&view=map

[glinda]

9. Interesting site. Thanks.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. There are a few

there is one my BIL sent once (which I cannot find) that is real time and looks like a certain 1970s movie... with a computer playing nuclear war (which is a game none can win)

[glinda]

11. scary

[DashOneBravo]

12. Bump

They're saying it's 22 million now. The head is stepping down.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yup, we will need to write a story on this

now

[DashOneBravo]

14. Yes ma'am

That's just crazy. I'm glad she stepped down.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. We have