The United States Office Of Personnel Management Cyber

What: 43 million records which include usernames, hashed passwords, email addresses and also ad-related data of users were hacked

One section of the Patriot Act pertaining to the NSA surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is an amendment to FISA Act of 1978, increasing surveillance authority by allowing the collection of "certain business records for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations" (“Uniting and Strengthening”). This gave the NSA and other intelligence agencies a broad authority to collect data from corporations. This has been “intentionally and willfully abused”, with some workers spying on lovers, ex-lovers, and others, “for practice”, “out of curiosity”, and other “reasons”. There have been no reported employee terminations due to this (Moyer).

Towards the end of 2013, OPM began to upgrade their cybersecurity polices. They added new tools and capabilities to various networks throughout their agency. The results of the new security upgrades, OPM was able to identify two different cybersecurity incidents on its systems. May of 2015 OPM discovered that their system has been under attack. Information such as background investigation records of current, former, and prospective Federal employees and contractors were stolen. After an extensive forensics investigation, it was determined that the types of information in these records include identification information such as Social Security Numbers, educational history, employment history, information about immediate family and other personal

The veterans affairs had given permission in 2002 for the analyst, from whom the equipment was stolen, to work from home with data that included millions of SSN’s, disability ratings, and other personal information.

The government and major companies have frequently leaked and misused the public’s information. For example, in Ted Koppel’s 2005 article on “Take My Privacy, Please!”, he mentions how Bank of America lost personal information on about 1.2 million federal government employees, including some senators. LexisNexis unintentionally gave outsiders access to personal files on over 310,000 people. Time Warner

None of the upper managers knew anything about the laptop being taken home and they did not know about it being stolen until about 2 weeks later. The laptop was stolen on May 03, 2006, and VA Secretary said “he wasn’t told about the burglary until May 16”, (YEN, H. 2006), nearly two weeks after it happen and he then informed the FBI on the 17th of May, and they then informed the public on the 22nd of May. That is almost 16 days after the breach that they informed the public, which I am sure the public knew before then from an outside source like the bank or Credit Card Company.

Issa utilizes statistics to suggest ideas. He says, “The Office of Personnel Management’s security breach resulted in the theft of 22 million Americans’ information, including fingerprints, Social

What do Premara Blue Cross, Anthem, Chick-fil-A, Sony, USPS, MCX, Staples, Kmart, Dairy Queen, SuperValue, Jimmie John's, Viator, Home Depot, PF Chang's, Community Health Systems, and JP Morgan all have in common? Each of these companies were hacked during 2014-2015. Sadly, this is just a short list showing the breadth of industries and size of operations that are vulnerable. According to Time Magazine in March, 2015, "You're not just imagining it: Lately, a new data breach has been reported almost every week."

The Obama administration on Thursday revealed that 21.5 million people were swept up in a colossal breach of government computer systems that was far more damaging than initially thought, resulting in the theft of a vast trove of personal information, including Social Security numbers and some

Computerworld.com reported on 6th August, 2015 stating that the hacking group which targeted unclassified email systems of the U.S. Department of State and the White House is supposed to have also compromised a network used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff which is a body of senior U.S. military leaders.

The United States is under attack. To be exact, the nation’s power grid is under attack in the form of cyber warfare. On May 21st, 2013 Congressmen Edward J. Markey and Henry A Waxman published a report that provided the findings from information that they had requested from over 150 utility companies (of which 60% responded). More than a dozen utilities reported “daily, constant, or frequent attempted cyber-attacks” (Markey & Waxman) with one utility reporting that they have about 10,000 attempted attacks per month!

In the decade following entry of TADA, reports of data fraud exploitations to the FTC surged. In 2001, customers documented 86,212 protestations. After three years, the number announced expanded about 250% to 214,905 grievances (FTC, 2007). Information from other government offices and private associations likewise bolster the claim that data fraud has risen exponentially since 1998. The Social Security Administration's (SSA) Fraud Hotline got roughly 65,000 reports of government disability number abuse in 2001, more than a fivefold increment from around 11,000 of every 1998 (U.S. Department of Justice, 2000). The Privacy and American Business (P&AB) study report that the rate of wholesale fraud relatively multiplied from 2001 to 2002 (Morris

Confidentiality must be met in the storage, processing, and transmission of data in an organization. For example, we are going to look at a major recent data breach. On March 8, 2017, the US department of homeland security sent Equifax and notice to patch a vulnerability in versions of the Apache Struts software. On March 9, Equifax dispersed the information to applicable personnel. Although told to apply the patch, Equifax security team did not find

On an average of 2% a year, personal records are exposed from over 700 public breaches over all areas of the departmentalized sectors. Global cost per every lost or stolen record are on the average of over $100 containing secret and touchy information. There were 35% more security incidents detected within the last

To start, there were significant issues regarding the OPM and its solutions to deficiencies found during their regular audits. These issues show a lack of Information Security management and maintenance. This is made clear in an article by ABC News that at the time of the Senate hearings regarding the OPM breach, “Only a few of the inspector general’s 29 recommendations for improvement have since been implemented” (“OPM chief ‘angry’ over hack,” 2015). Proper management of security audit findings must be implemented by the OPM, and the appropriate resources should be put in place to plan how to implement the recommendations as well as implement and maintain. Accountability should be put in place for the OPM management and the security and