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Re:Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500M Pages of Records an... by hash-set on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:47PM (#12756016)
Yes. I am caught up in the Chinese hack that stole all the .gov background check information last year. Not only did my pertinent information get stolen, but also everyone who I used as character references. Trust is dead.
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Re:Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500M Pages of Records an... by grandalf on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:02PM (#12756138)
Oh wow, I've been a reference for a few friends. Looks like mine was breached too. Incidentally I got the "looks like a state actor is trying to access your gmail account" several years ago, and I think the only value I'd have is as a friend/reference of some people in fairly sensitive government positions.
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Re:Ex-NSA Contractor Stole at Least 500M Pages of Records an... by doubt_me on Thursday October 20, 2016 @05:18PM (#12756267)
I actually heard it was 100x worse than reported. Totally not from anyone at homeland security tho
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