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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Would this have happened had they used OpenBSD? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-09 10:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

We need to ask ourselves, would this incident have even happened if they had been using OpenBSD? It's hard to say for sure, since details about this incident are scant. But we do know that OpenBSD is designed from the ground-up to be as secure as possible, and its developers put an immense focus on security. It has proven itself to be among the most secure, yet still practical, operating systems, if not the most secure for general-purpose computing. So when one has to put together a server or even an entire network, and security is a real concern, then I think that OpenBSD is the only viable option available.