News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by rcurry on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:42PM (#11067096)
Oh, you mean like all the personal information I had to submit to the Defense Investigative Service when they did my background check for a security clearance?

Why, it's funny you should ask! I just got a letter from the Office or Personnel Management about three months ago, proudly informing me that all that data is now in the hands of some foreign intelligence service.

Of course, they claimed it was the result of a "sophisticated" attack, which is government fail-speak for "We left your data on a bus, and a hobo took it".

Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by avukich on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:19PM (#11067419)
>> Of course, they claimed it was the result of a "sophisticated" attack, which is government fail-speak for "We left your data on a bus, and a hobo took it".

No it isn't. The hack of OPM was very well publicized. It was a long time project of the Chinese government to break into OPM's computers. I don't believe everything I read, but in this case I know is exactly what happened.

Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by atourgates on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @03:44PM (#11068604)
My wife got the same letter from her time working at the VA. Fingerprints, social security number and all the other personal details that they required.
Re:Hacker Publishes Personal Info of 20,000 FBI Agents by eli on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:20PM (#11067425)
Didn't the Chinese government more or less admit it was behind the OPM hack?

That doesn't prove the data was well secured or that the attack was especially sophisticated, but surely China is a capable adversary.