Oh, boy. Just when you thought the data breach of OPM computers couldn’t possibly get any worse, it got worse. Like nuclear worse:
Yep. It turns out that “adjudication information” used in processing security clearances for government employees — information that includes the results of polygraph tests — was stored on OPM computers.
Here’s an example of a question asked on a polygraph test that a foreign power now has access to:
That’s really bad.
More from the Daily Beast, where a security expert called this the “the most successful cyber attack in the history of the United States”:
Basically, it’s this:
Time to start firing people.
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