So, apparently they’ve been lying under oath about it.
Liars pic.twitter.com/U8o2NhgnaB
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) June 24, 2015
I wish I were surprised. I’m old enough to remember a time when people actually got in trouble for that.
[Update a while later]
How and why the OPM got hit with the biggest hack of all time.
[Update a few minutes later]
From comments:
Oh, it’s worse than that, though I realize it’s hard to imagine.
Consider: root access doesn’t just let you read the information. It lets you replace valid information with whatever you want. It lets you insert records into the data. In other words, it lets you create an SF-86 and background investigation for anyone. It lets you insert your own agents into the security records.
Including, I might add, agents of yours who might be hired to work at OPM. Which means that not only is that database blown, it must be considered corrupt – the information in it can’t be trusted because it may have been altered. That in turn means it needs to get wiped and go back to bare metal, then be reloaded from paper records. If they still have those records. And even if they do that, they can’t necessarily trust the records of the people doing this reloading.
This is what happens when you put incompetent political hacks in positions of great responsibility. And there’s no accountability.
[Update a few minutes later]
If Chinese have all the #OPMhack data, in what world are they NOT running data analysis to ID vulnerable high value targets?
— Political Math (@politicalmath) June 24, 2015