
The tale of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches has kept getting worse and worse for weeks. And now the government official who presided over the OPM during the breaches and their aftermath has finally resigned.
New accounts put the total American victims of the attack over 20 million, approximately 7 to 8% of the entire U.S. population.
Read WOTR commentary on the hacks, their impact, and what it says about U.S. cybersecurity:
“No Patch For Incompetence: Our Cybersecurity Problem Has Nothing to Do With Cybersecurity,” by Adam Elkus
“Why the Latest Government Hack is Worse than the Snowden Affair,” by Ryan Evans
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good, it’s about time
She needs to be banned from every holding any civil service position ever again
She needs to be prosecuted for gross negligence, at the least. The lengths she went to in order to fail at protecting our personal information and the information of our valuable intelligence personnel is appalling.