{"id":3681,"date":"2016-10-18T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:46:34","slug":"the-opm-breach-report-a-long-time-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/10\/18\/the-opm-breach-report-a-long-time-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The OPM breach report: A long time coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article discusses the breach of OPM (Federal Office of Personal Management), this breach leaked information about roughly 22 million current and former employees became public in mid-2015. \u00a0It took close to another 15 months for Congress to complete a report on it.\u00a0Hackers, said to be from China, were inside the OPM system starting in 2012, but were not detected until March 20, 2014. \u00a0A second group, who worked as a third-party contractor was also able to get access to OPM’s system, and it was not discovered until May 2015. \u00a0I was employed with the federal government in May 2014, so there was a chance that my information was apart of this 22 million names that were sent out. \u00a0I received several e-mails and letters in the mail informing me about the breach. \u00a0Below is a list of what the inspector general found about the security in place at OPM.<\/p>\n

An inspector general\u2019s report from November 2014 was blunt about a lack of basic security measures including:<\/p>\n