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07-09-2015, 04:35 PM
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Concerned ???
"More than 21 million Social Security numbers were compromised in a breach that affected a database of sensitive information on federal employees held by the Office of Personnel Management, the agency announced Thursday.
individuals who had undergone background investigation, OPM said. The remaining 1.8 million records belonged to other individuals, mostly applicants' families.
The records that were compromised include detailed, sensitive information about the individuals, including fingerprint data. OPM says 1.1 million compromised files included fingerprints"
OPM Announces More Than 21 Million Affected by Second Data Breach - NationalJournal.com
Then this of course at the same time......our leaders at work...
"Computer snarls that temporarily shut down the New York Stock Exchange and grounded the United Airlines fleet on Wednesday were a vivid reminder of how reliant Americans are on technology and how jarring such failures can be.
Though they were not attributed to a malicious computer attack, they underscored the continuing demand for cybersecurity legislation now entangled in Congress.
A few weeks ago, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and majority leader, said a major computer network protection bill was so urgently required in light of increased threats that he felt compelled to append it to an unrelated Pentagon bill.
“The need for this smart, bipartisan, transparent measure couldn’t be clearer,” he said as Democrats blocked it. They did so because they believed he had attached the measure to try to trap Democrats into voting for the defense bill, which remains tied up in a budget fight.
But since the impasse on the Senate cybersecurity legislation, there have been no moves to revive it.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...day-rush/?_r=0
OVERREACTON.....REAL FEAR...JUST A BUMP IN THE ROAD...NO PROBLEM ???
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