Here is why they are calling it "Pearl Harbor":
http://pjmedia.com/blog/read-how-an...ith-maybe-the-most-damaging-hack-of-all-time/Some of the data exposed was from the background investigations of people with security clearances, collected with Standard Form 86. This form is nearly 150 pages long, and it collects everything - where you’ve lived, where you’ve worked, who you know. For high-level clearances, it is then supplemented with a background investigation that looks at your credit, your potential police record, and interviews with people whom you identified on the form, and other people who show up by being connected to those people.
The investigation is a beast. I had one in the early ’80s, and I got phone calls for months asking if I knew the “FBI” was asking questions about me.
Usually when someone in the press has their hair on fire, I write about how the excitement is being exaggerated. But this time I can’t: this hack is a real problem.
There are a number of articles out there about how serious it is; I’ll let them explain it if you’re interested, as I find it too depressing. Basically, the Chinese - if it was the Chinese - now have the name, address, phone number, Social Security number, bank account information, and personal history of everyone who has a current security clearance, and everyone who had such a clearance for a good long while into the past.