http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cybercom-big-data-theft-at-opm-private-networks-is-new-trend-in-cyber-attacks/
By Bill Gertz
Washington Free Beacon
July 27, 2015
The commander of U.S. Cyber Command said last week that the Office of
Personnel Management hack of millions of records of federal workers shows
a new trend toward using Big Data analytics for both nation-state and
criminal cyber attacks.
“One of the lessons from OPM for me is we need to recognize that
increasingly data has a value all its own and that there are people
actively out there interested in acquiring data in volumes and numbers
that we didn’t see before,” said Adm. Mike Rogers, the Cyber Command
commander and also director of the National Security Agency.
The theft of 22.1 million federal records, including sensitive background
information on millions of security clearance holders, will assist foreign
nations in conducting future cyber attacks through so-called
“spear-phishing,” Rogers said, declining to name China as the nation state
behind the OPM hacks.
Additionally, China is suspected in the hack uncovered in February of 80
million medical records of the health care provider Anthem, which would
have given it access to valuable personal intelligence that can be used to
identify foreign spies and conduct additional cyber attacks.
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