Chinese hackers accessed US government systems earlier this year in order to target the files of federal employees who have applied for top-level security clearances. According tothe New York Times, senior American officials said hackers gained access to the system in March before the infiltration w...
the bill wouldrequirethat “any and all recovered [UFOs] and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities” be turned over to the U.S. government “in the interests
A Pentagon subcontractor has exposed reams of highly sensitive details belonging to active military healthcare professionals online, some of which hold top-secret security clearances. Potomac Healthcare Solutions, a subcontractor brought on board to supply healthcare professionals to the US government and...
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The OPM serves as the federal government’s human resource department and the agency compiles records and issues security clearances of all the federal government employees. TheOffice of Personnel Management (OPM)confirmed that both current and previous employees have been affected by this breach and...
“Your portfolio companies will be unable to secure grants, licenses, security clearances, contracts, approvals, etc. that are necessary to operate if your LP money isn’t clean and easy to trace for the government,” she added. The report noted that there are no legal limitations on America...
Incredibly—and ironically—the information that was stolen was primarily sensitive information on U.S. citizens who were applying for background checks and security clearances. Shortly after the hack, the OPM announced that one million sets of fingerprints had been stolen in the breach. (A breach...
Last year, hackers broke into the OPM’s computer networks that housed personal information of federal employees. The attackreportedlyappeared to have targeted the files of employees who have applied for top-secret security clearances, which listed their foreign contacts, previous jobs, ...
Just two days after the study was released, government officials told Congress that they were trying to reduce waiting times. “We have made great progress in improving the interagency security-clearance process in recent months by moving from a paper-based system to electronic transmission,” said...
So security clearances seem to be of little value to NSA (the whole government) because no one is actually vetted anyway. But now that China stole the list, it looks like: The whole reason we give people clearances is to…provide China with a list of cleared people. ...