Via Breitbart:
Today’s installment of the ongoing “Cyber Pearl Harbor” saga is pretty hair-raising, as Newsweek reveals Chinese hackers got into the FBI’s computer systems, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, compromising “an untold number of FBI agents’ personnel files” with “potentially dangerous national security implications.”
One of those implications is that the FBI is responsible for investigating all the other data breaches, and protecting America against terrorism and espionage. As always, the breach was hushed up, and its full extent is still either unknown or being kept from the public, including potential primary and secondary identity theft victims. (When personnel files are raided, the friends and family of the targets have reason to be nervous that they might be the next targets.)
In this case, some degree of secrecy might have been defensible given the extreme sensitivity of FBI operations, but it’s weird that we’re suddenly hearing about it now, as a staggered release of bad news while public attention is elsewhere, thanks to a “veteran agent” speaking anonymously to Newsweek.