More Than 22 Million People's Data Compromised By OPM Hack

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 9, 2015 @10:01AM from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been dept.

OutOnARock writes with news that the Office of Personnel Management data breach reported earlier this month was actually far worse than earlier estimates had it; in all, it seems that more than 22 million people (not all of them government employees) had personal information compromised by the breach. From Yahoo News's coverage: That number is more than five times larger than what the Office of Personnel Management announced a month ago when first acknowledging a major breach had occurred. At the time, OPM only disclosed that the personnel records of 4.2 million current and former federal employees had been compromised.

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I should've stayed unemployed... by __aaclcg7560 · 2015-07-09 10:14 · Score: 3, Informative

My two-hour background investigation interview lasted four hours because the bureaucrats in Washington couldn't understand how one person can have multiple jobs. After being out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month) and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, don't you think a person would work a regular Monday-Friday job and a weekend job to get his finances in better shape? Meh...
Enjoy my case file, hackers! I hope your head explodes from my employment misery!