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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    Got the letter the other week, but I feel like there's a breach of my personal info every 6 months or so now-a-days. With working for the Bureau of Prisons AND being reserve military, it's a double whammy as my chances are 2x as good for my info to get out. But I know you run that risk at any company you work for honestly.

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    Got my letter today. Same as reported before. My fingerprints are out there but NBD. Spouse, dependent children over 18 and all friends/relatives info stolen as well. Fear not! Same letter posted before but signed by the then or current acting OPM chief.

    All is well. Just adding data to the thread.

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    This was on Nextgov.com Friday, November 20th.
    Federal Technology News and Analysis for IT Managers & Acquisition Teams


    New Pentagon Website Can Tell If You Were Hacked by China
    New Pentagon Website Can Tell If You Were Hacked by China - Nextgov.com

    Below are some excerpts from the article. Bottom line though is that the website is not available to check unless you have been notified by OPM. There is a website mentioned in the article but I can't get into it, osd.mil.


    "Anyone who has undergone a federal background check to handle classified information, or is a child or spouse of such an individual, now can visit a Pentagon-hosted website to check if personal data is in the hands of suspected Chinese spies."

    "It is ready for prime time," Paul Temple, chief executive officer of Advanced Onion, the intelligence contractor that built the system, said earlier on Friday. "It is definitely up and running."

    "Advanced Onion would not provide a link to the site, because the company did not have permission from the government."

    "OPM spokesman Sam Schumach told Nextgov Friday evening. "It will be fully advertised within the next couple weeks," once all the mailed notifications have either been delivered or returned."

    ""We're right over the 13 million mark," and sending up to 800,000 letters a day, he said. All the notices should be in the mail by the first week of December, Schumach added."
    May the force be with us.


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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    I got a letter. It didn't specify that my records had been hacked. One of those "just as a precaution" letters.
    I signed up for 3 years of free monitoring.

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    My wife and I got our letters the same day last week. I signed us up for the monitoring, to supplement my Lifelock account.

    Waiting for the next breach...
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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    Oh happy day.

    Chairman Mao apparently has my complete vitals as well, according to OPM's letter received last week.
    chairman_mao.jpg

    So I wonder- why does it take OPM TWO MONTHS to send me a notice?

    Must be that, alphabetically, my last name falls later in the alphabet.

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    this is all too funny. the good thing about being on the list is that your data has already been stolen a long time ago, and nothing bad has happened, it is a known quantity. the bad thing about not being on the list is that you are the next target, and there is no free monitoring safety for you. everybody wants what they don't already have.

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    The definition of "Burro" in the Confucius (ConfuseUs) dictionary - means "One Who Speaks in Parables"

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    Got my letter in the mail yesterday. Now I'm curious, is it the most recent information or from when I first hired into the government or all of it? I hired into NASA in 1974 and retired in 2012. Then got rehired as a contractor in 2014. One of the guys I work with got hired just after me in 2014 and he got a letter. His first time applying for a government position. If my retirement information was grabbed then I have to worry about my married daughters because they are on there as beneficiaries. If the information grabbed was just after my rehire then I only have to worry about my wife's information. Sure would like to know how far back the information grab goes.
    May the force be with us.

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    Default Re: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

    some of the latest on the OPM breach. Be careful out there, everyone.

    https://threatpost.com/locky-targets...ictims/121879/


    See more at: Locky Targets OPM Breach Victims https://wp.me/p3AjUX-vHN
    A phishing campaign pushing Locky ransomware is targeting some of the 22 million victims of the massive United States Office of Personnel Management breaches of 2014 and 2015. According to researchers at PhishMe Intelligence, the campaign involves attackers impersonating OPM representatives who are targeting government contractors and workers that have had personal information stolen from them. Related Posts Inside the RIG Exploit Kit November 4, 2016 , 5:58 pm Nymaim Dropper Updates Delivery, Obfuscation Methods October 31, 2016 , 3:57 pm Following Lull, New Campaigns Pushing Retooled ‘Pumpkin’ Locky October 25, 2016 , 1:13 pm Attackers are using phishing messages that warn targets that the OPM has detected “suspicious movements” in their bank accounts. The email goes onto ask recipients to “examine the attached scanned record.” At the bottom of the phishing attack messages is the email signature of Elis Lucas, account manager with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The attachment is a zip archive that when launched runs a JavaScript application that downloads and runs a sample of the Locky encryption ransomware.

    See more at: Locky Targets OPM Breach Victims https://wp.me/p3AjUX-vHN
    Attackers are using phishing messages that warn targets that the OPM has detected “suspicious movements” in their bank accounts. The email goes onto ask recipients to “examine the attached scanned record.” At the bottom of the phishing attack messages is the email signature of Elis Lucas, account manager with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The attachment is a zip archive that when launched runs a JavaScript application that downloads and runs a sample of the Locky encryption ransomware.

    See more at: Locky Targets OPM Breach Victims https://wp.me/p3
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    Thanks for sharing this info alevin.

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