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Federal News Radio
In OPM hack,
who guards the guards?
By Mike Causey
July 17, 2015
People who live in or visit Washington, D.C., or whose corporations,
agencies or departments are based here quickly realize that we do
things differently. We are run by a board of directors of 535 strangers
(members of Congress), all of whom—save one—come from someplace else.
Many of them promise they will never “go” Washington. They pledge to
fight it even as they fight to get elected to come here. So they can
hate it from up close, I guess?
One of the most recent examples is The Great OPM Hack(s). Depending on
whose data you use, information on roughly 22.1 million current, former
and wanna-be feds and retirees was stolen in two separate cyber
attacks. That data includes names, addresses, birthdays and Social
Security numbers of millions of people. They include current workers,
retirees, people who once worked for the government and people who
applied for government jobs or government security clearances. It’s an
identity thief’s dream come true.
The appropriate groups and politicians—especially those from D.C.,
Maryland and Virginia—expressed justifiable outrage and concern. Labor
unions and retiree groups too. For good reason. Many people decided
that an example had to be made: Off with the head of OPM director
Katherine Archuleta. She resigned last week.
Now what...
Read the rest of the article at Federal News Radio
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