OT: Public Notice SF86 Data Breach
Some here - national security clearance applicants and holders - likely will now need to monitor their financial and other formally private records for the rest of their lives. According to published reports, suspected Chinese hackers have accessed and downloaded the personally identifiable information (closely held private) for every person referenced during the SF86 disclosure process even if you weren't the submitter. This post is simply to notify every person here that if you were ever named in an SF86 application that your records are at risk. Good luck.
You are just as vulnerable. The SF-86 is now part of e-QIP. If you had an old clearance and just used the paper version, well I have news for you. The gov't scanned them all into the e-QIP database.
I had an old clearance that did come up in the system, so I knew I was probably vulnerable... The question at this point is whether I make that bad news public to my wife.
To paraphrase a friend of mine, I doubt there will be much impact ... Though I did notice that my 401K was now reporting in Yuans and I'm heavily invested in Shanghai securities.
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I'm 10W40/E85 on the interstate. I could tell you more but then I would have to brake else maybe not.
Looking to get that promotion to GLG20...
With the latest OPM breach the Chinese know more about me than my parents. Really.
Very true. I'm on the 5 year plan as well. Maybe the Chinese wil turn this into a business opportunity. For a nominal fee they will put our SF-86 together. They have our account information so they can submit directly into e-QIP.
My last round through this was such a pain in the ass; ChiComs, please help me the next time.
(Actually, screw you, ChiComs.)
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The Chinese can partner with the NSA.
I don't even back up my computer anymore. If I lose something, I'll just call the NSA. They'll have it.
-1 for poor OPSEC
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There's a J3 type in every crowd
but other than screwing with the US economy - something China probably DOESN'T want to do - as most of their county's businesses depend on US citizens with disposable income, what the heck do they plan on doing with this information?
"Muahahaha! We now know that you, Jim Smith, were born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1976 - and you skipped out on the last three payments on your first car, a 1983 Toyota Tercel! For shame, sir. For shame."
I get why they WANT it, it looks good. But what do they actually plan to do with it? I mean, are they planning kidnappings or wire tappings to try and get information for an invasion? As nutty as the Chinese govt is, I don't think they have invasion on the brain, so this information ultimately becomes an empty victory.
For every problem, there's a solution. The solution may not be ideal, but it'll be better than an "oh well".
If you're an impacted person, the government will have to mark your file with each federal and state department reliant on any disclosed information for greater scrutiny re: record changes. With respect to personal usage of private information, such as obtaining a loan, credit reports will determine whether you're compromised; and while annoying, you would simply go through the process of disputing charges. If the government has your file marked, it's a bullet in the chamber for a faster review process.
I'm over-simplifying, but isn't this more or less where the conversation would have to start?
Ultimately, I think this report just confirms what we all kind of anticipated, unless our heads were buried in the sand. The internet and electronic filing systems are not Fort Knox. Everything stored online is as good as public, because smart a**holes growing up on computers are going to find a way to hack into stuff.
What really changes? Be as careful as you can with your personal information; and don't knowingly post compromising material online or in electronic storage. For everything else, there's a solution. If anything, it gives you greater leverage to dispute stuff; and disputing stuff often leads to being in a better position than you were before. Lawyer up and be careful out there.
all in an effort to gain sensitive information from anyone on these lists.
I'm getting a little butt hurt that I haven't at least been presented with a honey-pot hooker. Am I that unimportant China?!?
China works methodically. Kelly Hu in a Viagra commercial is laying the groundwork.
Here are former special forces guys going through what China will do with it & why: http://sofrep.com/41635/chinese-hackers-prepare-battlespace-war-america/
Probably 100% true.
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I know one of the guys who writes for them & he is a 100% real world bad ass. That article is only one of a bunch I've seen getting at the same thing so that isn't a stand alone article.
China doesn't want to "take us over," much less invade the US - as long as they can keep us buying cheap crap from them while they dictate the trade which goes through the South China Sea (something like 6.3 trillion goes through there annually which is more than the Suez & Panama Canals combined), they will be happy as they dominate the region and their people stay employed & relatively content.
Don't believe me about trying to take over the South China Sea? Here is a quick link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/09/defense-department-warns-chi…
They are going to apply for 4.2 million Visa cards and buy the Marcellus Shale Formation. Duh.
...a credit card vendor that a bunch of wineries in Napa Valley uses was hacked and a bunch of credit card numbers, addresses and some other information was stolen.
Seems like hackers have gotten a step ahead of the data management services and their security safeguards. Time for these companies to tighten up their security and move back ahead of the hackers.
Without disclosing names, I work for a software company & was on a plane next to a guy who handles security for one of the major US banks & I had a long discussion with him about IT security... or rather, the lack thereof. A direct quote from him about the Chinese hacking everything in sight is "don't worry, they are in your systems, they are in our systems, and they are in everyone's systems."
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but, given the recent headlines & conversations like what I listed above, I strongly encourage you to have some extra cash on hand (aka $200 - $1,000 depending on what you can swing, more is better) should our banking system get compromised.
If there is more than a momentary blip, yes - hard goods which can be bartered for are far better. Water is most important (as you die from thirst much sooner than hunger), followed by food, medicine, etc. Doesn't hurt to be packing & know how to use it, too.
Thats why you have ammo. Lol hard to "barter" with a gun in your face....
If everyone's house burned down eventually, nobody would sell fire insurance.
How do you explain life insurance?
The simple answer would be not to travel to an adversarial nation (China). Sadly, that's the environment in which we live in now.
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and billions of people don't do it every day.