China’s Spies Hit the Blackmail Jackpot With Data on 4 Million Federal Workers
The Daily Beast is scathing re the OPM hack:
Here’s where things start to get scary. Whoever has OPM’s records knows an astonishing amount about millions of federal workers, members of the military, and security clearance holders. They can now target those Americans for recruitment or influence. After all, they know their vices, every last one—the gambling habit, the inability to pay bills on time, the spats with former spouses, the taste for something sexual on the side—since all that is recorded in security clearance paperwork. (To get an idea of how detailed this gets, you can see the form, called an SF86, here.) Speaking as a former counterintelligence officer, it really doesn’t get much worse than this.
(tags: daily-beast sf86 clearance us-government america china cyberwar hacking opm privacy)