Roll Call: OPM Breach Includes Congressional Staffers
As government officials answered questions about the recent Office of Personnel Management data breach, former and current congressional staffers processed the notices they are receiving from the agency that they, too, were affected by the breach.
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., told CQ Roll Call Tuesday that his press secretary, George Burke, who has never worked for the executive branch, received a notice from the OPM saying his personal identifiable information may have been compromised. Connolly said he spoke with someone in the office of the House Chief Administrative Officer, and it appeared that congressional staffers who had a break in their service, activating their retirement status, were affected by the breach.
WNU Editor: This case gets bigger with each passing day. Not surprising .... members of Congress now want the White House to retaliate .... Members Of Congress Are Calling For Obama To Retaliate Against China For Hacking (USA Today).
4 comments:
What's the big deal? China's just checking on their employees.
You have no idea James on how much I appreciate the first laugh that you sometimes give me every morning. :)
Steroids in baseball? All over that!
Deflate gate? All over that!
Cardinals hacking case? All over that!
Chinese hacking scandal?
Where would we be with out Odumba, Congress and the FBI?
James linked the Ars Tecnica article. It mentioned that an excuse was given that part of the problem was that the systems were written in Cobol over 20 years ago.
I have a problem with that. COBOL is an 'old' programming language, but it is constantly updated.
I have not programmed in a long time. But I remember that we used something called RACF (sounds like Rack F; not sure how good it is). So there is or was security. Not sure what security systems you can use with COBOL, but I think it has more to do wit priorities than with a particular language. Security is provided by modules/ routines or whatever and not be a language per say. You just have to write the program or not write as the case may be.
The programmers and their bosses spent more time implementing whatever the higher ups wanted than improving the system which is what they would have done if left alone.
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