Company suspected of blame in Office of Personnel Management breach will help run new clearance agency
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1WN2W)
In 2014, the US Office of Personnel Management was hacked (presumably by Chinese spies), and leaked 22,000,000+ records of Americans who'd applied for security clearance, handing over the most intimate, compromising details of their lives (the clearance process involves disclosing anything that could be used to blackmail you in the future). This didn't come to light until 2015. (more")