Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year | CyberSecurity | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From www.washingtonpost.com - June 23, 2015 3:31 PM
Senior U.S. officials have said that the Chinese have begun in the last 12 to 18 months to build vast databases of Americans’ personal information for counterintelligence purposes. They have gone after such data contained not only in federal networks, but in systems belonging to health-insurance giants such as Anthem.

The breach details come as OPM leadership is under fire for its handling of a succession of network hacks over the last year and a half. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), has called for the resignation of the agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta.

Under Archuleta, Wagner said, the agency in February 2014 began a program to identify vulnerabilities in the agency’s aging computer systems — some date to 1985 — and to modernize the network.


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