US Pulls Spies from China After Hack
Source: CNN
The United States is pulling spies from China as a result of a cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers, a U.S. official said Tuesday.
The U.S. suspects that Chinese hackers were behind the breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the fingerprints of 5.6 million government employees.
Because the stolen data includes records on State Department employees, the hackers could, by process of elimination, identify embassy personnel who are actually intelligence agents.
Employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency assigned to China are at risk of being exposed, U.S. intelligence officials determined in recent months. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the CIA has pulled a number of officers from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
The hack is expected to have a major impact on U.S. national security, in part because the stolen data includes information from U.S. government forms used for security clearances, known as SF86 questionnaires.
Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/technology/china-opm-hack-us-spies/index.html?iid=ob_article_topstories_pool&iid=obnetwork
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)will figure out a way to blame this on Hillary.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)How's that?
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)I bet her yoga schedule was a portal into OPM records.
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)We need transparency!
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)Seriously.
Was there an alert on this OP?
Please explain.
treestar
(82,383 posts)About Ed Snowden. It's OK when he releases a ton of information in the name of transparency, so to those supporting that it shouldn't be a problem if Hillary's emails are public. I don't think there was any alert. Someone in GDP linked it in a thread about Snowden having an opinion on Hillary's emails.
Sorry if that did not make sense. My mind was likely on that other thread and that makes no sense right here.
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)I almost never go into GDP.
I don't like the strife.