In what The Washington Post calls “the largest breach of federal employee data in recent years,” the government of China broke into the Office of Personnel Management in December. It’s the second hack of the agency, and this one comes after managers promised “an aggressive effort to upgrade our cybersecurity posture.”
The OPM intruders “gained access to information that included employees’ Social Security numbers, job assignments, performance ratings and training information, agency officials said,” according to the Post.