About a week ago, just after Hillary Clinton had announced her plan for a national voter database containing the personal information of every single citizen over age 18, news broke that the Obama administration was scrambling to assess the extent of a “massive data breach” that “could potentially affect every federal agency.” Further reporting revealed that the hacking had occurred in April and was suspected to be the work of the Chinese.
Just a week later, news outlets are reporting that hackers have managed to steal the Social Security numbers and personal data of every federal worker. Again, that’s every federal worker.
Union says gov’ts lack of encryption for federal employees’ social security numbers “indefensible and outrageous” – http://t.co/JbP6tr7S5e
— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) June 11, 2015
Hackers have "all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees." ~@AP
— Rachael Perrotta ? (@plussone) June 11, 2015
Every federal worker got the data stolen. EVERY ONE! http://t.co/N0ZtHbqkiL
— R (@RTShark) June 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/608981376679972864
@AP fucking wonderful…
— JoeLo (@Joelo432) June 11, 2015
@AP @instapundit But let's give the Govt our health data anyway!
— David Rowe (@dvdrowe) June 11, 2015
@AP S**T! My husband is a federal employee!
— Top?Hat (@top_hat_321) June 11, 2015
@AP As a FedWorker I think our benefits should include credit monitor all the time not after shit happens. This is 3rd PII breach in 5 yrs.
— RebeccaMahanCalhoun (@beccabecca1713) June 11, 2015
Awaiting a statement on the seriousness of the OPM hacking from administration spokesman Chip Diller. pic.twitter.com/3LFUPuJP4K
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 11, 2015
Gawker reports that none of the millions of Social Security numbers that were stolen was encrypted.
I was just thinking whoever hacked into Fed employee data should have access to all of Obama's lost paperwork
hmmm….
— Wayne Dupree ?? (@WayneDupreeShow) June 11, 2015
BREAKING: China found Obama's college transcripts. @AP https://t.co/iNxluBq10y
— The Streeter (@thestreeter) June 11, 2015