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My agency sent an e-mail today saying that they will be sending snail mail later, when they are ready. And hold off calling in to the contractor as they are swamped and will have more call answerers and better internet access later....implying that things will be better if we wait until after we get our letters.
Wanted to check our credit report. We do this annually. Received a letter from TransUnion that they can't find my husband's data. My husband wants to know why the Chinese can steal his data from OPM but TransUnion can't find his data.
The Chinese are erasing him...soon they will pick him up and there will be no record of his existence. And THEN they will question him and torture him with Hip-Hop music 24 hours a day until they know precisely how many paperclips the US government buys each year!
LOL..first the big hack and now the hackers hacking the hacked.
And it has not been proven that it was the Chinese government.
For all we know it could have been any government as the US had gotten caught spying on our allies and gathering their data.
How can anyone wonder why some do not trust the fed gov on many things. The state department lets Hillary use a private unsecured email system while the secure one with private data gets hacked. Can't make this stuff up. Private company I worked for had one metric for IT. How many viruses or other hacks were successful in our system. If the answer was one, we suspect it would be time for a new it head but not sure as it did not happen. We were hard to access for good reason and security over board but it worked.
Yep, finally got my notice by snail mail. I think it's time for me to change my bank, credit card, etc. "security questions". To wit:
""...name, SSN, address, date and place of birth, residency, educational, and employment history, personal foreign travel history, information about immediate family as well as business and personal acquaintances, and other information used to conduct and adjudicate your background".
Now I have to decide whether to send email to ex-spouse although it seems to me it would be easy for gov to check his tax return and send his notice to his last known address.
Seriously, OPM, it took you five months to send this out?
When you give answers to security questions don't use anything that makes sense. In other words, if they want your mother's maiden name answer something like "chocolate". If they want the date you met your husband, answer something like "Circle". Make sure you will remember whatever answer you give. But if the answer makes no sense it is harder for hackers to guess.
When you give answers to security questions don't use anything that makes sense. In other words, if they want your mother's maiden name answer something like "chocolate". If they want the date you met your husband, answer something like "Circle". Make sure you will remember whatever answer you give. But if the answer makes no sense it is harder for hackers to guess.
I'll try that but it will only work if I can somehow associate the words so that they make sense to me. Otherwise, my memory is too poor to associate a nonsense word with the correct answer. For example, ex-husband, [think] pinhead = circle. I'll try it. Ooooh, I just thought of one that is similar to your "Chocolate" for mother's maiden name. This could be fun.
Hopefully I can at least slow down a hacker. Thanks for the suggestion.
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I'll try it. Ooooh, I just thought of one that is similar to your "Chocolate" for mother's maiden name. This could be fun. 
