12/18/2014

On the CyberWar Today & the Breach at the US Office of Personnel Management

The debacle at Sony continues to reverberate around the World.      This is a more disturbing Development just reported on NextGov:

  GovExec Breaking News
  
December 18, 2014
 
 

OPM Alerts Feds of Second Background Check Breach // Nextgov Staff

The Office of Personnel Management is alerting more than 48,000 federal employees their personal information may have been exposed following a breach at KeyPoint Government Solutions, which conducts background investigations of federal employees seeking security clearances.
The total number of employees affected is 48,439 according to an OPM email notification obtained by Nextgov.
Read the full story at Nextgov

The old saying is ever so true:  You have either been hacked--or if you have not been hacked, you have probably been hacked anyway.     It is a war that seems to have no end.


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