Thread by @wretchardthecat

The 'trust' problem goes beyond subjective intent. The data breach at the Office of Personnel Management was one of the most devastating blows against US national security even though it may have resulted from incompetence.

freebeacon.com/national-secur…

China is mining intelligence from an estimated 23 million records of American federal workers, including intelligence and security personnel, stolen in cyberattacks against the Office of Personnel Management, according to a member of Congress.

Rep. Chris Stewart (R., Utah) said the Chinese are easily gaining information from the stolen records. ...
The first official confirmation that China's government carried out the cyberattacks was made by White House National Security Adviser John Bolton in September.

The office is the repository of federal government personnel records, including social security numbers and documents known as SF-86s that contain personal information about people who apply for security clearances. ...

The federal government sent notices to the millions of security clearance holders notifying them of the compromise of their personal data. The loss of the sensitive clearance records also includes information on the relatives of security clearance applicants because details ...

about an applicant's offspring are part of the application process.
The breach involved the extraction from OPM networks of an estimated 23 million records of federal workers, including ... about 20 million records related to SF-86s were stolen.

This is conceivably the biggest headline that never was. Quite a feat in an admin that counted Snowden, Manning, the rollup of the CIA network in China, missing the rise of ISIS and Benghazi.

Obama kept Archuleta even after the first and smaller of two eventual data losses even after it was obvious she was in over her head.

nytimes.com/2015/07/11/us/…