{"id":8323,"date":"2015-09-25T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T12:00:14","slug":"opm-now-admits-5-6-million-feds-fingerprints-were-stolen-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/opm-now-admits-5-6-million-feds-fingerprints-were-stolen-by-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Now Admits 5.6 Million Feds Fingerprints Were Stolen by Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/fingerprint-biometrics-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8324\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/fingerprint-biometrics-3.jpg\" alt=\"Fingerprint-biometrics-3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lede\">WHEN HACKERS STEAL <\/span>your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they\u2019ve got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life. When they steal 5.6 million of those irrevocable biometric identifiers from U.S. federal employees\u2014many with secret clearances\u2014well, that\u2019s very bad.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Office of Personnel Management admitted that the number of federal employees\u2019 fingerprints compromised in the massive breach of its servers revealed over the summer has grown from 1.1 million to 5.6 million. OPM, which serves as a sort of human resources department for the federal government, didn\u2019t respond to WIRED\u2019s request for comment on who exactly those fingerprints belong to within the federal government. But OPM had previously confirmed that the data of 21.5 million federal employees was potentially compromised by the hack\u2014which likely originated in China\u2014and that those victims included intelligence and military employees with security clearances.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes at a particularly ironic time: During the U.S. visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping, who said at a public appearance in Seattle that the Chinese government doesn\u2019t condone hacking of U.S. targets, and pledged to partner with the U.S. to curb cyber crime.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/opm-now-admits-5-6m-feds-fingerprints-stolen-hackers\/?mbid=nl_92315\">Wired<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WHEN HACKERS STEAL your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they\u2019ve got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life. When they steal 5.6 million of those irrevocable biometric identifiers from U.S. federal employees\u2014many with secret clearances\u2014well, that\u2019s very bad. On Wednesday, the Office of Personnel Management admitted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,13,74,1317,1189,65],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}