• Leigh Weigh@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    “The agency leadership is lost,” the former cyber investigator tells me.

    He says staff have been advised to sign up to a service called DeleteMe, which helps remove personal information from data broker websites - a response he feels is inadequate.

    Lmao. Wow. They’re really getting a taste of what they do to us every day.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I was impacted by the 2015 OPM data breach. The OPM is basically the HR department for the entire federal government. It has personnel records on everybody from federal employees in DC to CIA officers to military and everything in between.

      As a result of that breach I was given free top-notch credit monitoring for roughly ten years, and it served me pretty well. I guess it shows just how bad things have gotten in the federal government if the FBI is being told that they’re basically on their own.

    • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Damn you guys all got your identity stolen too? All of us??? WTF? These fuckers were filing my taxes and sniping the checks out of my mail. some sophisticated shit.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
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        11 days ago

        If you exist in the Social Security records then yes, your personally identifying information has been leaked to unknown actors a minimum of three times.

        Whether or not your identity has been properly stolen and used for illegal business is down to luck and pretty much nothing else.

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          11 days ago

          Oh lol, so you dont have a police report for ID theft, you have a notice of data breach and a ‘big balls’ problem too

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    The FBI is toast.Their leadership is a complete joke and they are running around doing the bidding of Nazi sympathizers. They have always been racist sacks of shit but now they have been reduced to brown shirts.

  • TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Fuck if you guys actually did your job and took down these fucking cyber criminals this would have never happened. You gotta freeze that credit now boyo. Rest easy old sports!

    • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      My employer lost everything they had on me and all of my fellow coworkers, including copies of passports and shit. I’m still mad.

      Fun sidenote, two app developers came to our location to ask us ‘what you would like to see in an app we are developing for employees’. I told them I didn’t trust them with my data and to not develop an app at all. Just don’t. They got pretty upset and left.

      Six months later news broke about one of the largest data leaks where all of our data was stolen. And yeah it is fucked up but like, I was right tho. I don’t trust them and I was right not to. Stay mad losers.

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      11 days ago

      My employer lost everything they had on me and all of my fellow coworkers, including copies of passports and shit. I’m still mad.

      Fun sidenote, two app developers came to our location to ask us ‘what you would like to see in an app we are developing for employees’. I told them I didn’t trust them with my data and to not develop an app at all. Just don’t. They got pretty upset and left.

      Six months later news broke about one of the largest data leaks where all of our data was stolen. And yeah it is fucked up but like, I was right tho. I don’t trust them and I was right not to. Stay mad losers.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Really, because it has been happening to every single US citizen for the last 20+ years. They stopped protecting our privacy a long time ago, fuck them.

  • Mihies@programming.dev
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    11 days ago

    All praise the Orange’s cybersecurity cuts plus incompetent and corrupt leadership, wcgw, eh…

  • Snarwin@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    Wow that sucks. Imagine having your personal data exposed to people who might use it in malicious ways. It must be so hard for them.

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    11 days ago

    According to another former agent, there is widespread shock that such a breach could happen at one of the world’s best-resourced law enforcement agencies.

    “You would think this information would not be internet-exposed. It’s disturbing, actually,” he says.

    Maybe it’s time to start passing laws a la HIPAA that crank up handling standards for certain classes of data.

    • murph@lemmy.sdf.org
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      11 days ago

      The have (and will again) pass them just for Law enforcement, judges and elected officials. The rest of us will continue to have no protection, because it’s good for business.