Congressional report highlights missed opportunities to avert OPM cyber-attack
by Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#1SZNR)
- Personal information of more than 21 million compromised at federal agency
- House report reveals details and chronology of attack some blame on China
It was time to purge the hacker from the US government's computers.
After secretly monitoring the hacker's online movements for months, officials worried he was getting too close to critical information, so they devised a plan, called the "Big Bang", to expel him.
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