China and Russia are cross-indexing hacked data to target U.S. spies, officials say
In The News Piece in The Los Angeles Times
Aug. 31, 2015
"A foreign spy agency now has the ability to cross-check who has a security clearance, via the OPM breach, with who was cheating on their wife via the Ashley Madison breach, and thus identify someone to target for blackmail," said Peter W. Singer, a fellow at the nonprofit New America Foundation in Washington and coauthor of the book "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar."