Except that what leaked out is the background checks of almost all of the people that have a security clearance. There's a lot potential for someone to use tha

Except that what leaked out is the background checks of almost all of the people that have a security clearance. There's a lot potential for someone to use that information to blackmail ("I'll tell your wife about that affair you had 10 years ago") or socially engineer (pretend to be someone else) their way to the very secrets this process is supposed to protect.