When They Aren't Pissing It Away On Ideology...

...they're giving it away via incompetence.  My retirement, that is:

We’re talking about names, social security numbers and other personal information of almost 770k retirees potentially being compromised.

Letters from CalPERS started going out to their retired members on Thursday about exactly what happened, and where they go from here...

The concern: A Russian ransomware gang, known as Clop’s, and its worldwide cybersecurity hack. 

Myers said on June 6, CalPERS’ third-party contractor, PBI Research Services, first notified the government agency about a potential data breach.

Then on June 9, PBI confirmed that the information sent for them to verify was impacted...

The California state teachers’ retirement system was also affected. 

A member of CalSTRS spoke with FOX40 and said, “CalSTRS is working with PBI to identify the CalSTRS members whose information was involved in PBI’s incident. CalSTRS will provide notice to any members and beneficiaries whose personal information was involved in accordance with applicable law.”

sigh