Like millions of other federal retirees, I recently received a letter from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling me that a “cybersecurity incident” may have compromised my “personal information, including name, Social Security number, date and place of birth and current or former address.” In plainspeak, the OPM computer system had been hacked.
This “incident,” as OPM bureaucratically phrases it, is only one of the more recent in a long string of such cyber-attacks that have affected government and private organizations alike. Responses are almost always the same: Government officials and other “experts” speculate that the attack came from Russia, China, North Korea or some country in the Middle East. They promise to tighten up security. (And sometimes a resignation is required to mollify Capitol Hill.) For the full article click here
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