From My Way News: Hackers stole Social Security numbers, health histories and other highly
sensitive data from more than 21 million people, the Obama administration said
Thursday, acknowledging that the breach of U.S. government computer systems was
far more severe than previously disclosed.
The scope of the data breach — believed to be the biggest in U.S. history —
has grown dramatically since the government first disclosed earlier this year
that hackers had gotten into the Office of Personnel Management's personnel
database and stolen records for about 4.2 million people. Since then, the Obama
administration has acknowledged a second, related breach of the systems housing
private data that individuals submit during background investigations to obtain
security clearances.
That second attack affected more than 19 million people who applied for
clearances, as well as nearly 2 million of their spouses, housemates and others
who never applied for security clearances, the administration said. Among the
data the hackers stole: criminal, financial, health, employment and residency
histories, as well as information about their families and acquaintances.
The new revelations drew indignation from members of Congress who have said
the administration has not done enough to protect personal data in their
systems, as well as calls for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and her top
deputies to resign. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman
Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, said Archuleta and her aides had "consciously
ignored the warnings and failed to correct these weaknesses."
"Such incompetence is inexcusable," Chaffetz said in a statement.
House Republican leaders — Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy and Whip Steve Scalise — also called for Archuleta's resignation and
said President Barack Obama must "take a strong stand against incompetence." http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150709/us--government_hacked-5cd07d13a9.html
I would not be surprised if our IRS files and ObamaCare data has been hacked already.
These hackers, probably from China or other communist country, probably have hacked these files but the government just hasn't told us yet.
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