The Chinese didn’t just hack federal employees. Journalists were swept up in the massive breach, too.

Not only are journalists being notified, but also spouses of federal
employees whose information was also on file because of insurance and other
reasons. It seems that the only way to be safe in computer land is to have
networks that are completely disconnected from the internet - they must be
totally, physically internal to the agency/company with no connection to the
open internet.

"The government is notifying journalists who are accredited by federal
agencies that their personal information may have been stolen by the
Chinese, another sign of the breadth of the massive hack of U.S. computer
networks."



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