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Jun
08

OPM Hackers Skirted Cutting-Edge Intrusion Detection System, Official Says

From: Nextgov

By Aliya Sternstein

When attackers compromised a federal personnel system holding records on up to 4 million current and former employees, the files were in an Interior Department data center equipped with the most up-to-date version of a governmentwide intrusion detection tool, a government official with knowledge of the center at the time said Friday.

But that tool, called EINSTEIN 3, would not have been able to catch a threat that has no known footprints, according to multiple industry experts.

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