From: Fudzilla
by Nick Farrell
Don’t want to be around for the “big hack”
Four senior cybersecurity officials are stepping down from their US government positions, raising concerns that an exodus of top leaders may make the federal government more vulnerable to hacking.
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But this must all be worrying. Federal cybersecurity breaches can have devastating effects. When the OPM was hacked in 2015, the intruders, believed to be Chinese, accessed an estimated 21.5 million federal employees’ Social Security numbers as well as a database that contained government background checks for federal workers.
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