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Hacked OPM won’t cough up documents on mega-breach – claim

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Dissent

Shaun Nichols reports:

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – which handles sensitive files on millions of government workers and was thoroughly ransacked by hackers – is withholding thousands of documents from Congress, which is probing the cyber-attack.

This is according to members of the House Committee on Oversight, who took OPM to task for what the panel calls an unwillingness on the part of the agency to provide it with information related to last year’s devastating IT security breach.

Read more on The Register.

Category: Government SectorU.S.

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1 thought on “Hacked OPM won’t cough up documents on mega-breach – claim”

  1. IA Eng says:
    January 11, 2016 at 6:32 am

    Make an example of the highest peson involved and send them through the wringer. Others will crumble quickly.

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