US officials: Massive breach of federal personnel data

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/102730155

The Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records, U.S. officials said Thursday.
In November, a former Department of Homeland Security official disclosed another cyberbreach that compromised the private files of more than 25,000 DHS workers and thousands of other federal employees.

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Thanks for posting.  If anyone cares enough to get their dick-skinners on this data it would be fascinating to know if any of the individuals have anything to do with Bitcoin are represented.

I'll bet that if this account of events have any basis in fact (questionable), then some of the names on the list are worth upwards of $1M per to have remain secret.  This would constitute a 'retirement event' if it really is the handiwork of criminal hackers.  Or at least very clever ones.  I have to think that the data would have to be matched against other independently pilfered data to get actual identities, but I've underestimated the competence of our govt IT folks before.  At the very least I would have to think that any data is segmented and more important people were not in the same group as the typical fed drones.