US reports massive breach of government personnel data
The U.S. is investigating a massive data breach that exposed personal information on around 4 million federal government workers, according to news reports Thursday.
View ArticleMEDJACK: Hackers hijacking medical devices to create backdoors in hospital...
After the Office of Personnel Management breach, medical data was labeled as the "holy grail" for cybercriminals intent on espionage. "Medical information can be worth 10 times as much as a credit card...
View ArticleHacked data on millions of US gov't workers was unencrypted, union says
A union representing U.S. government workers says it believes detailed personal information on millions of current and former federal employees that was stolen by hackers was not encrypted.
View ArticleUS fears second major breach exposed more employee data
A second major cyber breach that might reveal far more personal and damaging information appears to have hit the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
View ArticleHackers had access to US security clearance data for a year
Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information on government employees with security clearances had access to the system for about a year before being discovered, The Washington...
View ArticleOPM: The worst hack of all time
Hi, my name is Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and I had a security clearance in the 1980s. Because of that, my personal records are likely to have been revealed by the Office of Personnel Management hack.
View ArticleOPM hit by class-action suit over breach of federal employee data
A federal employees union has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, its leadership and a contractor, alleging that their negligence led to a data breach that compromised the...
View ArticleThe OPM lawsuit will only make the lawyers rich
Sensitive data pertaining to millions of people was compromised in the data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. I suspect that millions of those people smiled when they heard about the...
View ArticleBlack Hat 2015: DHS deputy says ‘just trust us'
The deputy head of the Department of Homeland Security implored a group of skeptical security pros at Black Hat 2015 to share information about security incidents and to trust the government to keep it...
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