Hacks
The Office of Personnel Management is the human relations/personnel department of the Federal government. Katherine Archuleta, who has been the director of the OPM since 2013, has resigned effective today. She announced last month that the department’s computer system had been hacked and the personnel records of 4.2 million current and former federal workers have been compromised. Yesterday she announced that the records of 21.5 million people who had applied for government background checks since 2000 were probably also taken.
Of course, Congresscritters immediately started demanding her resignation. What no one seems interested in discussing is the reality that the only reason we know about the hack is because Ms Archuleta has been upgrading the software since she took over the department, and the upgraded software discovered the break-in.
No good deed goes unpunished in politics.
July 10, 2015 10 Comments
