Man, the more that comes out about this fiasco, the better it gets:
As many as fourteen million current and former civilian U.S. government employees had their personal information exposed to hackers, according to two people who were briefed on the investigation, a far higher figure than the four million the Obama administration initially disclosed.
The newer estimates put the number of compromised records at between nine million and fourteen million going back to the 1980s, said one congressional official and one former U.S. official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because information disclosed in the confidential briefings includes classified details of the investigation.
There are about 4.2 million federal employees, so the majority of the records exposed relate to former employees. Contractor information also has been stolen, officials said.
You know the Democrat civil war over trade? The ChiComm hack attack has opened a third front, as a major rupture is emerging between the Obama Regime and its public employee union buddies:
The latest revelation came a day after a major union said the cyber theft is more damaging than it first appeared, asserting that hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for all the federal workers in a central personnel database....
J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a letter Thursday to OPM director Katherine Archuleta that based on incomplete information OPM provided to the union, "we believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees."...
The union believes the hackers stole military records and veterans' status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance, and pension information; and age, gender and race data, he said.
The union, which does not have direct access to the investigation, said it is basing its assessment on "sketchy" information provided by OPM. The agency has sought to downplay the damage, saying what was taken "could include" personnel file information such as Social Security numbers and birth dates.
"We believe that Social Security numbers were not encrypted, a cybersecurity failure that is absolutely indefensible and outrageous," Cox said in the letter. The union called the breach "an abysmal failure on the part of the agency to guard data that has been entrusted to it by the federal workforce."
It would seem that a growing tide of the Left is now joining the "Obama is incompetent" camp, mostly because they always knew he was a communist revolutionary like they are and, of course, had, and have, no problem with that. Which is still highly amusing - oh, heck, it's frickin' hilarious. It took blundering into the biggest cybersecurity breach ever to finally make it click in leftwingnut minds that perhaps, just perhaps, electing a roaringly ignorant narcissist with no executive experience, little political experience of any sort, who had never run or managed so much as a lemonade stand for no other reason than because he was a mulatto maybe, just maybe, wasn't such a hot idea after all.
At least, not until his bumbling adversely affected them.
Welcome to the party, Mr. Cox. You're demonstrating that "See, we told you so's" are a "better late than never" commodity.
UPDATE: The other pump drops:
Hillary Clinton blew off the standard information technology security training required of all State Department workers when she headed the department as Secretary of State, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
The lack of training was revealed after the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see the documentation; the State Department replied it couldn't find any record of Clinton, chief of staff Cheryl Mills, or deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin getting any IT security training, the Free Beacon reports.
"One former, senior executive branch personnel official contacted me to point out the requirement that appointees take this training, and that if Mses. Clinton, Abedin or Mills had deigned to follow the law, a record of this would exist," Chris Horner, who filed the FOIA request, tells the Free Beacon.
"He also noted, however, that if anyone was to turn up their noses and refuse the training — and be permitted to — these are the folks. We now know this to be the case."
The snub also sent a negative message to those who worked for her, one critic said, calling the lack of training "sadly unsurprising."
"It is unfortunately not uncommon for people who think a lot of themselves (this can go way below the secretary level) to say 'I’m too busy/important/smart to actually do this stuff that common workers are required to do,'" Steve Bucci, the director of the Heritage Foundation's Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy, tells the Free Beacon....
"Federal regulations require everyone to do that sort of training, everyone. If a senior executive, government or civilian, does not take security training they are making a huge mistake."
"That sends a message that security is, in fact, unimportant to the organization," he adds.
So Hillary Clinton is capable of being honest, transparent, and candid after all. But really, what did she care? She had her own servers anyway, right?
But don't worry, I'm sure she posted plenty of guards around the ones at Foggy Bottom.
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