How the Army Screwed Over Targets of Biggest Government Hack Ever

Here ’s proof that the government unsighted - bumbles its room through tech problems like some hydra - headed bureaucratic Mr. Magoo : The Army guess a lawful email of warning from another agency was also from hacker — and ended up leavingpeople affect by the hackin the darkness because of its error .

After personal data was stolen from millions of Union employees inan enormous breachof the Office of Personnel Management , the Army sent out an electronic mail warning citizenry that hacker were test to aggress them again , this time by using a phishing email to pile up even more personal info . Except the “ phishing email ” in question was actually an prescribed e-mail from an OPM contractile organ , secernate people they were affect by the data point falling out and tender course credit monitoring services to help them avoid fallacious charges .

As The Intercept ’s Jana Wintersreports , this ended up anguish the OPM hack target , because the Army ’s probe into the “ phishing email ” intend citizenry got apprise late :

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Army and Air Force investigations of the “ phishing cozenage ” delayed by several days both dupe apprisal and credit monitoring welfare to Defense Department personnel office whose private entropy had fallen target to OPM cyber-terrorist . The e-mail notifying victim notifications and linking to about the monitoring only went through after spam filters were reset .

This is almost comical , except real people — who arealready vulnerablebecause the government ca n’t maintain adequate operational security measure — are now doubly screwed because the governing also ca n’t figure out how to pass along between agency .

[ The Intercept ]

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