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Hackers Stole Social Security Numbers of Every Federal Employee

June 12, 2015 by Paul Spoerry 14 Comments



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.

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

I have a utility belt full of programming languages and a database of all my knowledge on databases... I practice code fu. Oh, I've also done actual Kung Fu, and have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

Comments

  1. Le Mont Bennett (Mr Monte) says

    June 12, 2015 at 9:38 am

    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

  2. jd quinitchette (CrazyLikeABOSS) says

    June 12, 2015 at 9:45 am

    Boy, that sucks.

  3. Tim Counts says

    June 12, 2015 at 10:09 am

    After the Anthem hack, the federal employees were the only American SS numbers they did not have.

  4. Fratani Marie-Noelle says

    June 12, 2015 at 11:17 am

    Oh oh!

  5. Jason Honingford says

    June 12, 2015 at 11:56 am

    Here's a new idea. Stop using SSN as a form of authentication.

  6. Paul Spoerry says

    June 12, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    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.

  7. Tim Counts says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    +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.

  8. Jason Honingford says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    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.

  9. Jason Honingford says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    +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!

  10. Tim Counts says

    June 12, 2015 at 1:43 pm

    +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.

  11. West Kagle says

    June 14, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    The entire system was password protected with a 9 digit code (123456789). They can't understand how it was broken.

  12. Fratani Marie-Noelle says

    June 15, 2015 at 3:44 am

    +West Kagle lol!

  13. Paul Spoerry says

    June 15, 2015 at 8:51 am

    +West Kagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k

  14. West Kagle says

    June 15, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    +Paul Spoerry
    Yes!

    Makes me giggle MMFAO every time.

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