Monthly Archives: June 2015

It was originally reported that the personal data of 4 million current, former and potential federal employees was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) web site.  Now that total is believed to be closer to 18 million records.

The Chinese government is believed to be the source of the attack, although they have disputed this statement.

The OPM office learned of the data breach after it launched an effort to tighten its cyber security defense system. When it found malicious activity authorities used a system called EINSTEIN to unearth the information breach in April, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Read the full story on CNN.

Digital Constitution, Microsoft’s site dedicated to combating US surveillance, was breached the evening of June 17.  The hackers may have used vulnerabilities found in an order version of WordPress to gain entry.  The site was displaying spam links to casino-related pages.

The full story is available on ZDnet.

The popular but vulnerable tool to store your passwords has been hacked according to a posting on their own web site.

They detected an intrusion to their servers and said that while encrypted user data (aka your stored passwords for other sites) was not stolen the hackers did take LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts and authentication hashes.  If you use this service you should change your login password immediately.

This loss of sensitive information will never happen using our service, metaPassword, since your password never leaves your browser.  It is never stored on our server, so your master password remains secure no matter what.

See:
http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-hacked-time-to-change-your-master-password-1711463571