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But in this case there was no announcement about the attack. “The administration has never advocated that all intrusions be made public,” said Caitlin Hayden, a
by vonmoltke 12y ago
But in this case there was no announcement about the attack. “The administration has never advocated that all intrusions be made public,” said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the Obama administration. “We have advocated that businesses that have suffered an intrusion notify customers if the intruder had access to consumers’ personal information. We have also advocated that companies and agencies voluntarily share information about intrusions.”
That's rich. I'm a Facility Security Officer and this article is the first I have heard of this breach.
Also, as indicated by an article comment someone else posted here, e-QIP is used for all clearance investigations handled by OPM, regardless of who the candidate works for. They cover DOD, DOE, DHS, and other base-level security clearances. The complete records are supposed to be destroyed once the clearance is adjudicated, so it should only affect personnel who are in the process of an initial or periodic investigation.
For reference, here is what the SF-86 is: http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf
- danielweber 12y agothis article is the first I have heard of this breach. FWIW, the article is 8 days old. Did you find out through this article before, or did you just find out from this article being posted to HN today?
- vonmoltke 12y agoA brief NPR report on the subject last week was the absolute first I heard, but this article is the first detail. The NPR story didn't say what the hackers had tried to get, just that they breached OPM and tried to get a list of government employees in sensitive positions. This article I did not see until it was posted here Edit: clarifications
- JPKab 12y agoMost FSOs I've met and worked with don't at all keep up with anything relevant to their jobs. Its known to be a complete dead-end job in the Federal Gov't, with exception of people employed at Defense Contractors who have the role of FSO on top of another role. For those folks, its just a task of assisting with clearances and the like on top of their normal duties.
- JPKab 12y agoI'm assuming that you deviate from this, but the reputation for FSO's in the Federal government is do-nothings who answer to nobody. The security clearance process is a joke. Everything about DoD IT security is a joke. Polygraphing people and pretending its scientific is a joke. It's all just a bullshit machine to ensure left of center people are excluded from the Department of Defense and other agencies. I'm done in 2 weeks. Can't wait to leave every FSO and Information Assurance manager behind me. A bunch of do-nothing paper pushers who conduct the security theater and hamstring decent software with paperwork while approving anything with Oracle or Microsoft written on it.