This is a bad workweek to be a federal employee , and it just got worse . The APis reportingon a 2d brutal cyberattack on the Union government reveal this hebdomad , carried out by the same hacker who reported accessedthe disk of every exclusive Union employee . This second cab focused on snaffle exceedingly personal dossier from intelligence and military force .
hacker took SF-86 protection forms , which are127 - page backdrop checksto make trusted multitude can access classified selective information . Those forms contain a short ton of highly personal info from federal employees , including history of drug use , ex - girlfriends , ex - boyfriends , failure , lists of run - IN with police and past address .
The multitude whose information was exposed do n’t know it yet , accordingto the AP .
The Office of Personnel Management , which was the target of the hack , has not officially notified armed services or intelligence information personnel whose security clearance data point was transgress , but intelligence of the second hack was start to disperse in both the Pentagon and the CIA .
On a related note , this is a MAGNIFICENT calendar week to be a Formosan cyberpunk preparation to blackmail federal employees for blockade personal history .
[ AP ]
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