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It's very interesting when you also take into account the OPM breach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikip
by dontbenebby 7y ago
It's very interesting when you also take into account the OPM breach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
If you have a list of federal employees + a list of people's credit histories you can do things like spot people who have security clearances but no credit history.
Jenna McLaughlin did a great piece on how breaches like this are making it almost impossible for intelligence agents to operate under traditional cover:
https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to-save-americas-undercover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to...
The days of creating a SSN, issuing it a passport + an entry in OPM as a "cultural attaché" at some embassy are waning fast, if not gone already.
- mzs 7y agoalso the Marriott breach - who's staying when/where and what CC do they use https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675983642/chinese-hackers-are-responsible-for-marriott-data-breach-reports-say https://www.npr.org/2018/12/12/675983642/chinese-hackers-are...
- dontbenebby 7y agoI saw several people paying cash to settle their bills at a conference once, and thought it was odd since that hotel makes you at least supply a CC for incidentals (and show ID) Maybe it was to guard against generating useful metadata that could be later breached? Very interesting.