Report: Hackers Stole Social Security Numbers of Every Federal Employee
The largest government hack in history is even larger than officials have admitted, with some sources saying every single federal employee had personal information stolen, including social security numbers.
Holy crap… the US Office of Personnel Management didn't store peoples SSN encrypted? I bet their passwords were all in plaintext too.
Downside of being a Washingtonian. Sometimes we just have to hang our heads in shame, even though we didn't do anything! People do not separate Washingtonians from the federal government. This man at VA yesterday started yelling at me over this! Bahahahahahahahhahaha
Boy, that sucks.
After the Anthem hack, the federal employees were the only American SS numbers they did not have.
Oh oh!
Here's a new idea. Stop using SSN as a form of authentication.
I doubt the SSN was being used for authentication… but businesses (even the government) has to have the employee SSN in order to pay into social security benefits, so you can get your W2, etc.
+Jason Honingford We have talked about a ID number that could be used for banking, business, flying, etc, that was not connected to your SS ID. Our congress was, as always, AWOL and now it is far to late. Anthem lost somewhere between 80 and 130 million ID's. Most of them not even their customers.
Reagan got rid of antitrust laws for insurance decades ago and they share everything.
Have you noticed the lack of hacking reporting from the three credit rating agencies? Does anyone believe they have not been hacked? They won't even hire folks to fix records and we think they secure information.
My point is identify theft only exists, because organizations hold the social security as a piece of authentication. Stealing social security numbers should not be the issue, it's how we let organizations use it.
+Tim Counts Right and as I'm writing code at this moment that hides all but the last 4 digits of the SSN, I'm reminded how dumb society is to be using it as a secret password! Backasswords!
+Jason Honingford Was it not Sony, who had suffered dozens of attacks in Asia before they got hit in the US, that bought security software and had not changed the factory default password from "admin".
They had been warned half a dozen times by friendly hackers and security firms that they could waltz right in. Then Sony blamed our government for not securing their servers and protecting their childish emails.
The entire system was password protected with a 9 digit code (123456789). They can't understand how it was broken.
+West Kagle lol!
+West Kagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k
+Paul Spoerry
Yes!
Makes me giggle MMFAO every time.