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
Image: U.S. Dept of Education
