Marc Zwillinger sat down with CNN to discuss the harm that U.S. personnel could face if foreign governments are amassing and cross-referencing personal information collected from data breaches. “Individually, the OPM breach and the Ashley Madison breach both present significant dangers to U.S. personnel, including intelligence personnel, but taken together, they really ratchet up the level of harm,” said Marc Zwillinger, a lawyer handling data breach and privacy cases. “The OPM breach has confidential information about U.S. personnel and people that have applied for security clearances, and the Ashley Madison breach reveals people’s most intimate secrets about the affairs they might be having, and together, it provides a lot of leverage that could be used to blackmail and possibly influence U.S. personnel.”
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