From: Nextgov
A Democratic congressman who says his personal information was stolen in two massive data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management now says his information is being used in attempted identity-theft schemes.
“In the last three weeks, I’ve had people use my data from that breach to apply for credit cards in three different banks all over the country and god only know what else will happen,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said Tuesday at a Capitol Hill event on cloud computing. “I can tell you, we know why the Chinese wanted this data: to sell it to people who are going to use it try to create fraudulent credit. That’s one reason; they’re may be lots of other reasons as well.”
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