http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/16/ncsc-opm-hack-wasnt-their-responsibility
By Sam Thielman
The Guardian
16 September 2015
One of the largest breaches of US government data in history is somebody
else’s responsibility, counterintelligence officials told senator Ron
Wyden in a formal letter passed to the Guardian on Wednesday.
The Democratic senator from Oregon last month submitted three questions to
the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) about the
hacking earlier this year of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in
which the personal information of 21 million people was exposed.
In August, Wyden asked whether the NCSC had identified as a security risk
the OPM’s giant database of federal security clearances, which includes
personal and identifying information as private as psychiatric evaluations
and social security numbers.
Wyden also asked whether the NCSC had made any recommendations related to
better securing the database, which retains data going back to 1985. The
theft of the information exposed some 21 million current, former and
prospective government employees and has been attributed to Chinese
hackers by the US government. The placement of blame is at the forefront
of many minds in the nation’s capital.
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