The hack of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management keeps going from bad to worse:
BREAKING: OPM now says 5.6M people had fingerprint data comprised in government data hack, up from 1.1M previously announced.
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) September 23, 2015
Whoops! OPM says hackers stole 5.6 million fingerprints, not 1.1 million:http://t.co/tDJLtPJjDO pic.twitter.com/S2UkMyBbFD
— Motherboard (@motherboard) September 23, 2015
But remember, the OPM doesn’t consider it a “hack,” but rather a “data exfiltration.”
Tweeters noticed interesting timing:
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/646684754222387201
Papal News Dump continues…. https://t.co/l8bs7GUiBn
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) September 23, 2015
Interesting time to release this news, while everyone's attention is on the Pope's visit. https://t.co/KQYvSji9jX
— Teri Christoph (@TeriChristoph) September 23, 2015
Why dump news on Friday when the Pope is in town on Wednesday? https://t.co/kiwNfNmVj4
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) September 23, 2015
The Pope has been good for the news dump business. https://t.co/F5gXUYBogw
— Drew McCoy (@_Drew_McCoy_) September 23, 2015
If they're "admitting" to 5.6M people now, just assume that the actual answer is "everyone, every last damn one." https://t.co/zSXH8PHLV0
— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) September 23, 2015
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— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) September 23, 2015
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Accountability? What’s that?
What could possibly go wrong with a regulatory government run by unaccountable unelected lifetime bureaucrats? https://t.co/7ZwTvizZk9
— Professor Emeritus, NPC Coding Academy (@IllConsiglieri) September 23, 2015
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