Thread: OPM Breach, did you get the letter?

i am not going to take the 3 year monitoring deal. i am holding out for new fingerprints, a perpetual job tending bar, and a boat in the keys.

The letters do not seem to contain the "hold harmless" we should expect, no? The USG is self insured, controls the reserve currency, and has the Fed, so it would not cost anything, right? We need a new entitlement, even though it would be for actual taxpayers. New fingerprints hurt.

After one round of plastic surgery from which he was extremely disappointed to find that he still looked the same, one of the doctors suggested that he remove his fingerprints as a way to escape being detected. Dillinger liked this idea and elected to undergo the painful process of obliterating his fingerprints. Dillinger was not the first criminal to come up with that idea. In 1933, “Handsome Jack” Klutas had attempted to file down the small ridges on his fingers, but he ultimately failed. Two of Kate “Ma” Barker’s clan, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis and Ma’s son Freddy, decided to remove their fingerprints as well, so they hired mob physician Joseph P. Moran to do the job. Moran was inexperienced in this procedure and repeatedly hacked and knifed at their prints until the gangsters couldn’t bear any more pain, but when their fingers finally healed, the fingerprint ridges grew back to their original patterns.

Hi JTH. This is either the second or third time my data was breached. It occurred while working for DOE (Chinese hacking attacks) and again at OPM. They have provided Experian for me since 2009 and I expect them to provide that coverage until I move to another plane of existence. However, even Experian was recently hacked so I don't know how much faith I have in any of these systems.

I've spoken before about the idiocy of the last 10 years in government supplanting a knowledgeable federal workforce competent in cyber-security with a bunch of contractors....we know the results...

And while I know I shouldn't feel this way or say this: I still feel the people responsible for allowing this to happen should be publically acknowledged for their incompetence and made to suffer in some meaningful way.

I am sorry that you and so many others private information was breached.

It would make me proud if our NSA\CIA\DOD repaid the Chinese for their kindness in a meaningful and significant way.

FS

I, personally, do not trust an entity I do not know with even more information. As far as I can tell, my bank information is not in my security clearance.

Maybe the best thing any of us can really do is change our bank (or our account numbers), do the same for credit cards, and do whatever you can to make other identifiable targets different than documented in your security clearance. Basically, make the security clearance info obsolete.

Luckily, national espionage probably doesn't key around bank accounts and the like. Nations would be more interested in leveraging individuals. I feel sorry for those who properly disclosed issues that can now be leveraged.

Originally Posted by Boghie

I, personally, do not trust an entity I do not know with even more information. As far as I can tell, my bank information is not in my security clearance.

Maybe the best thing any of us can really do is change our bank (or our account numbers), do the same for credit cards, and do whatever you can to make other identifiable targets different than documented in your security clearance. Basically, make the security clearance info obsolete.

Luckily, national espionage probably doesn't key around bank accounts and the like. Nations would be more interested in leveraging individuals. I feel sorry for those who properly disclosed issues that can now be leveraged.

For my security clearance, I was not required to provide my banking info.

My guess, is that the combination of SSN, Full Name, and address can be used to acquire credit cards in my name, be used to make purchases, thus damaging my credit rating.

I wonder if the ChiComs are getting in on the ground floor for this effort and will cross check their multiple datasets, especially when they build one from this information. Soon they may command the behavior of enough employees to make the intel industry, employees and contractors, a subsidiary. They're probably looking for the big fish, though, no?

But if on the other hand you have ever been known to browse for some adult entertainment, you could be the next target for hackers.

The warning comes from software engineer Brett Thomas, who said on his blog: ‘If you are watching/viewing porn online in 2015, even in Incognito mode, you should expect that at some point your porn viewing history will be publicly released and attached to your name.’

He said: ‘At any time, somebody could post a website that allows you to search anybody by email or Facebook username and view their porn browsing history. All that’s needed are two nominal data breaches and an enterprising teenager that wants to create havoc.

‘I think the next big internet privacy crisis could expose the private and potentially embarrassing personal data of regular people to their neighbors.’

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/18/your-porn-browsing-history-could-soon-be-available-for-all-the-world-to-see-5446851/

And while I know I shouldn't feel this way or say this: I still feel the people responsible for allowing this to happen should be publically acknowledged for their incompetence and made to suffer in some meaningful way.

Repeated without attribution but with a "hear, hear!"

Got mine on the 8th. Not happy but what can you do.

Spoke to a friend of mine who was a contractor, retired 5 years now, got the letter as well. I thought it was just Gov. employees.

Ouch!!! That hurts, Jason. Sorry to here you are another one ripped off by this continued ineptitude.

Hey wait a minute -- how do we know you are the real Jason? Speak Mandarin or Cantonese by any chance?

I knew it. JTH stands for Jason The Hun!

FS

I nor anyone I have asked has received such a letter. We all got breached. What do you suppose that means? They haven't gotten to sending a letter to us yet or some are at more peril?

PO